Author Question: When 3-year-old Marcus first tries riding a tricycle, he pedals it slowly and awkwardly, and he has ... (Read 101 times)

go.lag · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When 3-year-old Marcus first tries riding a tricycle, he pedals it slowly and awkwardly, and he has trouble steering it where he wants it to go. Over time he becomes increasingly proficient, and eventually he can ride a tricycle with little conscious effort. Marcus's progress illustrates the role of:

a. canalization
b. organization
c. automatization
d. executive processes

Question 2

When children practice basic skills over and over again, they can eventually perform them quickly and with little thought or effort. An advantage of such automatization is that the skills:

a. Require less working memory capacity
b. Enable children to bypass working memory
c. Enable children to bypass the sensory register
d. Make the use of long-term memory unnecessary for simple tasks