Memory
13-year-old Annie is practicing her strategies for remembering capital cities for Canadian provinces. Annie imagines a reality where she found a new island where a brown Labrador dog is running around chasing a squirrel and sees an old man whose name is Saint John praying in the church. What strategy is she using?
Annie is using elaboration
True or False
Collaboration among children is always productive when problem solving
False
Lizzie wants to write a birthday card to her classmate, who is turning 7. She writes “Happy birtday Anna yor a grate friend!”. This takes her 30 minutes. List a reason why this might have taken her so long.
Difficulties in:
- Printing
- Spelling
- Punctuation
True or False?
Children who watch a lot of TV can develop short attention spans over time and have difficulty concentrating in school.
False
Correct this statement:
Cognitive self-regulation involves determining a goal, selecting a strategy to reach said goal, and observing how the strategy has worked for others to determine if it will be effective.
Cognitive self-regulation involves determining a goal, selecting a strategy to reach said goal, and monitoring the effectiveness of the strategy, altering it as needed.
Ms.Alphabet is beginning to teach her kindergarten class to read. Based on what she knows about teaching phonetics, the whole-word method, and the whole-language method, how might she teach her young students?
Ms. Alphabet would teach phonetics because it is essential to teaching young children how to read.
However, she may also incorporate activities from the whole-word or whole-language method to encourage the efforts of her class.
A 5-year old named Lily spends two hours each day watching Sesame Street, Curious George, and Super Why. Her parents are worried that this screen time will affect her creativity and attention span. Based on this chapter, what would you tell Lily’s parents?
Lily’s parents should worry less about the screen time and more about what type of content she is exposed to. Educational shows like Sesame Street and Curious George can support learning, while fast-paced, action shows might limit creativity by giving children less time to reflect.
Every day, Mary leaves a note in her 7 year old son Alex’s lunch box. Today when he comes home from school he asks her why there wasn’t one. Mary tells him that she is sure she put one in his bag and that he must have lost it, but Alex is unconvinced. Based on the Fuzzy Trace Theory mentioned in the text, what could be going on here?
Memories can either be held in verbatim or gist formats. Verbatim meaning exact recalls of information and gist being the storage of knowledge in vaguer, more generalized forms. As you grow older there is a tendency to favour gist memories which can sometimes lead to false memories, especially when what is being falsely remembered is a part of a well-established script.
Because Mary is so used to putting a note in Alex’s lunch box that she thinks she remembers doing it that day, despite having not.
Children and adolescents can struggle to grasp new concepts due to conflicts where flaws in their previous mental models of the world do not align with more credible theories being presented to them. Suppose you are a science teacher who wants to teach ninth graders about the Bohr-Rutherford model in chemistry. What is something you can do to reduce this problem?
Have students write down their own theories of how chemistry works to identify where fallacies in their theories begin. You can then use that information to pinpoint how you can most efficiently teach them
3-year-old Sam is learning to count! During snack time, his parents decide to test his learning by asking him, "How many cookies do you have?". He responds with "1, 2, 6, 5... 5!!". His parents chuckle and ask him to try again. Sam re-attempts with "1, 3, 4, 5... 5!!"
Which of the 2 principles of counting has little Sam mastered, and which one has he yet to grasp?
Sam has mastered:
- One-to-one principle (only 1 name assigned to each object)
- Cardinality principle (the last number represents the total amount)
Sam has yet to grasp:
- Stable-order principle (number names counted in the same order)
A 8-year old child spends many hours each day on the computer. Sometimes he will go on educational websites or will be researching things for school; However, other times, he will be browsing social media or visiting websites that include inaccurate or misleading information. Why could this be harmful, and what strategies can the parents use to decrease the harm?
Children have difficulty considering other people's points of view and distinguishing fact from opinion. This can shape false beliefs and affect their understanding of the world.
Some strategies include supervising the child’s online activity, teaching media literacy skills, and modeling healthy screentime.