Chapter 7

Question 1

metamemory

Answer 1

diagnosing memory issues and monitoring the effectiveness of memory strategies

Question 2

list all the strategies for remembering

Answer 2

rehearsal
organization
elaboration
chunking

Question 3

autobiographical memory

Answer 3

peoples memory of significant events and experiences of their own lives

Question 4

why is autobiographical memory important?

Answer 4

helps us construct a personal life history

Question 5

when does autobiographical memory start?

Answer 5

preschool

Question 6

is elaborative style less common in asian parents?

Answer 6

yes

Question 7

infantile amnesia

Answer 7

inability to remember events from ones early life

Question 8

what are the 3 aspects of fuzzy trace theory

Answer 8

verbatim
gist
false memories

Question 9

what is gist?

Answer 9

experiences stored in terms of their basic meaning

Question 10

do some memory errors depend on gist?

Answer 10

yes

Question 11

what are false memories?

Answer 11

recognizing a word that was never presented

Question 12

how are structured interviews beneficial? (3 things)

Answer 12

prevent coercive techniques

increase rapport with kid

increase reliability of info

Question 13

what is failure to encode

Answer 13

kid may fail due to not encoding all of the important information in the problem

Question 14

means-ends analysis

Answer 14

person determines difference between current and desired situations, then does something to reduce difference

Question 15

what form of logic do 18 year olds use

Answer 15

concrete operational

Question 16

what form of logic do 13 year olds use

Answer 16

formal operational

Question 17

siegler’s overlapping waves model

Answer 17

kids use multiple strategies to solve problems and overtime they use strategies that are faster/more accurate

Question 18

phonological awareness

Answer 18

ability to hear the distinctive sounds of letters

Question 19

what is phonological awareness strongly related to?

Answer 19

success in learning to read

Question 20

decoding

Answer 20

identifying individual words by sounding out letters in them

Question 21

knowledge telling strategy

Answer 21

writing down information on a topic as they retrieve it from memory

Question 22

knowledge transforming strategy

Answer 22

deciding what info to include and how to organize it for the point they wish to convey

Question 23

what knowledge strategy do adolescents use?

Answer 23

knowledge transforming strategy

Question 24

one to one principle

Answer 24

must be only 1 number name for each object that is counted

Question 25

stable order principle

Answer 25

number names must be counted in same order

Question 26

cardinality principle

Answer 26

last number name differs from previous ones in a counting sequence by denoting the number of objects

Question 27

word recognition

Answer 27

process of identifying unique pattern of letters

Question 28

comprehension

Answer 28

process of extracting meaning from sequence of words

Question 29

what are 2 ways to problem solve

Answer 29

heuristics and analytic solutions