Suppose you are an elementary school teacher. What developmental trends and individual differences in attention might be useful for you to know about in making curricular decisions and developing individual learning plans?
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Question 2Discuss the development of problem-solving strategies. What is the adaptive strategy choice model? What are the implications of the findings regarding strategy choice for the field of education?
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Question 3What are metamemory and metacognition, and what developmental trends are evident with these mental skills?
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Question 4Pressley and Woloshyn provide a general model for how to teach strategies, which is summarized in the text. Outline the steps of the strategy, and provide an example of how it could be applied.
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Question 5Memory processes are an integral component of the information-processing viewpoint of cognitive development. One type of memory, recall memory, has been found to improve dramatically with age. Four explanations have been offered. Name and evaluate each of these explanations.
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Question 6A major part of the information-processing perspective is the multistore model, through which information flows. Write explanatory notes about these elements of the multistore model: the sensory store, the short-term store, and the long-term store.
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