1. What are psychometric studies and how are they used to study cognitive abilities? Explain the technique of factor analysis and also explain what the Numerical Facility factor is.
2. Explain reaction time and how it is used to study cognitive processes.
3. How did Starkey and Cooper investigate infants sensitivity to numerosity and what were their findings?What are some examples of other investigations dealing with childrens' competence for numerosity. (781)
4. Explain how knowledge of number concepts is affected by childrens understanding of number words, and how these two things affect childrens understanding of number quantities greater than three or four. Why are numbers greater than three or four more difficult for children to grasp than smaller numbers? Why is learning number words greater than ten more difficult for children speaking European-derived languages than those speaking East Asian languages? (785)
5. What are cardinality and ordinality and what are different ways of assessing childrens understanding of them? (786)
6. Describe Starkeys experiments using tennis balls to test implicit knowledge of arithmetic in preschoolers. (787)In what way do children from 2-2.5 years of age struggle with exact calculation?(787-788)
7. How is the idea of commutativity developed within children?What are some ways of practicing these concepts?How did Resnicks (1992) model test this and what discoveries did he make relating understanding of commutativity to childrens basic knowledge of addition. (790)
8. What are the most common counting procedures and how are they executed? How does the improvement in a child's conceptual understanding affect which counting procedure is used?How does counting transfer to more sophisticated means of solving arithmetic problems?
9. Name and describe four main word problem categories? What are the processes related to solving word problems?
10.Explain the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the development of problem solving strategies.
11. What are Primary and Secondary Biological competencies? What are the four proposed biologically primary mathematical competencies? How do primary competencies influence/affect the formation of secondary competences? Give an example.
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