memory across lifespan
Language Development
Metamemory & Strategies
100

 What type of memory is measured when infants kick to move a mobile in Rovee-Collier's experiment?

What is conjugate reinforcement

100

 By what age can infants recognize their own names?

What is 4 to 5 months

100

 Young children are often overconfident about their memory accuracy. This is a failure in what kind of thinking?

What is metamemory

200

Children under 7 struggle with this process of identifying the origin of a memory.

What is source monitoring

200

 This type of speech, formerly called “motherese,” helps infants learn language.

What is child-directed speech

200

This memory strategy involves repeating information to hold it in working memory.

What is rehearsal

300

 Elderly people show the least decline in this type of long-term memory.

What is recognition memory or implicit memory

300

 What is it called when a child uses a single word like “doggy” to refer to all animals?

What is overextension

300

 Older adults are just as good as young adults at monitoring memory but often fail to do this with the information.

What it use it to guide their strategy or memory performance

400

 This term refers to memory for experiences and events related to oneself.

What is autobiographical memory

400

What is the term for a child saying "runned" instead of "ran"?

What is overregularization

400

 What is the term for using context to make a reasonable guess about a word’s meaning?

What is fast mapping

500

What cognitive phenomenon explains older adults performing better when environmental reminders are present?

What is prospective memory with environmental cues.

500

At what stage do babies begin to make vowel-consonant sounds like “dadada”?

What is babbling(around 6 months)

500

 According to research, the relationship chain among metamemory, strategy use, and performance begins with this.

What is metamemory