Origins of Memory
When are the roots of memory laid down?
The first couple months after birth.
What actions promote remembering?
Chapter outlines, highlighting passages, creating lists, and recalling.
What is one reason Memory Strategies could not be good?
If children dont know how to use them.
What strategies can teachers explain and demonstrate so the learner remembers more?
Including first selecting a goal, mental pictures, predicting, and summarizing.
(True/False)The knowledge children have already obtained cannot assist with memory and help children organize information?
False
What lengths can young babies remember events?
Days or Weeks at a time.
Repetitively naming information to be remembered is what kind of stratagy?
Rehearsal
Define Meta cognitive knowledge?
Knowledge and awareness of cognitive processes.
What are some effects of teacher assistance in memory?
Understand and remember the text more deeply and get higher test scores.
(True or False) Children's memories can be tainted by simply over hearing adults and peers?
True
How do toddlers remember steps, sequences and actions?
By Observing
Structuring material to be remembered so that related info is placed together is what kind of strategy?
Organization
What is Meta-Memory
Accurately monitoring the effectiveness of memory strategies
Define script?
Events structured to be remembered in order
What locations in the brain stores information and begins developing around 6 months of age?
hippocampus and amygdala
How can babies remember a mobile memory or action that is harder to access.
Seeing the Actiom/Mobile
Embellishing information to be remembered to make it more memorable is what kind of strategy?
Elaboration
How can children use effective cognitive self-regulation?
Identifying goals, Selecting effective strategies, and monitoring accurately.
Fuzzy Face Theory: What are the 2 ways experiences can be stored?
Stored in memory exactly (verbatim)or in terms of their basic meanings (gist)
Even though knowledge is important what can it still cause in memory?
distortion
Who conducted the theory that children remember more as they age?
Carolyn Rovee Collier
What are examples of External Aids?
Making notes, writing down information on a calendar.
Where did meta-cognition originate?
In the Early 1970s, by American developmental psychologist John H. Flavell.
What do Childhood and adolescence tends to remember more in terms of ...?
Gist (Basic meanings)
What must a interviewer do to get the correct information out of a child?
Must be interviews soon after event, encourage them to tell the truth, and ask them to describe in their own words