Discuss a memory strategy that help adults and children remember things.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Adults and older children use strategies to help them remember things. One strategy is mental repetition, or rehearsal. If you are trying to remember a new friend's phone number, for example, you might repeat it several times. Another strategy is to organize things to be remembered into categories. Most preschoolers do not engage in spontaneous rehearsal until about five years of age (Bebko et al., 2014). They also rarely group objects into related categories to help them remember. By about age five, many children have learned to verbalize information silently to themselves by counting mentally, for example, rather than aloud.
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