When young children recall and retell a story, they often recall certain important features while forgetting unimportant ones, reorder the sequence of events in more logical fashion, and even include new information that fits with a passage's
meaning. This demonstrates that young children
A) have poor metacognitive skills.
B) reconstruct information based on their everyday experiences.
C) often fail to employ appropriate memory strategies.
D) are not yet adept at cognitive self-regulation.
B
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Mary has just met an attractive man named Austin at a party. She wants to make sure she remembers his name. What should she do?
a. Mary should repeat the name continuously so as to commit it to long-term memory. b. Mary should chunk it by remembering the first three letters as a set and then remembering the remaining letters as a set. c. Mary should make it more meaningful. For example, she might remind herself that Austin has the same name as the capital of Texas. d. Mary should create a song to help her remember his name.
On any given Piagetian task of formal operations, the success rate among late adolescents and adults is only about __________.
A. 10%-20% B. 40%-60% C. 75%-80% D. 95%-100%
A person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point. The person is engaging in __________ thinking.
A. functional B. circular C. convergent D. divergent