Older children typically remember more than younger children. List and describe two strategies that older children use to facilitate their memories

What will be an ideal response?


Any two of the following: (1) rehearsal—older children repeat items that they want to remember over and over again to themselves, (2) organization—older children organize to-be-remembered items into conceptual categories, (3) selective attention—older children focus and systematically encode only those items that they want to remember, (4) use of content knowledge—older children make links between their existing knowledge and to-be-remembered items.

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