Present four effective information-processing skills children acquire in middle childhood that
can be applied to memory. Provide an example of each.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Rehearsal – repetition mentally, verbally or written. Writing spell words; having parents ‘hear'
math facts.
2. Organization – grouping ideas, objects or words into easily recognized categories. Generally the
category name is employed to remember the specific items. Remembering parts of the body into
systems – digestive, endocrine, etc. Child remembering states by first letter – all the "a" states.
3. Elaboration – finding a connection between two or more items. Lincoln – railroad, Civil War.
4. Mnemonic – a memory trick. The method of loci or an acronym (Roy G. Biv).
5. Systematic Searching – actively searching for a to-be-remembered item or event. Might use
acoustical or date. Sounds like or happened in 1990.
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A. ordinal B. ratio C. interval D. nominal
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b. Although the research offers high levels of control, the findings may not apply to anyone outside the sample studied. c. Although the external validity of such research is strong, internal validity is usually weak. d. It is difficult to gain the statistical significance needed for such studies to provide meaningful results.
Experiments with speech spectograms show that
a.speech is continuous between words. b.speech shows invariant features. c.all languages use all phonemes. d.there is a one to one mapping between phonemes and segments of the speech stream.