For children in ____, memory strategies like rehearsal and organization are especially helpful.
a. literate, low-income, third-world societies
b. illiterate, low-income, third-world societies
c. industrialized Western countries
d. isolated places like lighthouses
Question 2Being an expert on a particular topic of knowledge
a. provides schemes that speed further learning.
b. diminishes the child's interest in doing more learning.
c. impedes further learning due to the confusion of old vs. new knowledge.
d. speeds further learning for girls but not for boys.
Question 3Dino, age 10, has read every dinosaur book in all the local libraries, and he has seen every TV show and movie about dinosaurs. When his class studies dinosaurs, Dino learns the new material faster than his peers. This illustrates the importance of ____ for memory.
a. free recall
b. knowledge base
c. analogical reasoning
d. memorization strategies
Question 4Children who have expertise in particular topics have greater ____ than their peers.
a. resistance against infantile amnesia
b. fuzzy-trace gist clarification
c. span of apprehension
d. knowledge base
Question 5Soupy's preschool teacher asks if it is harder to recall the names of four cars or the names of six bikes. Soupy will say that it is easier to recall the names of the
a. cars because there are fewer of them.
b. bikes because he likes bikes more.
c. bikes because he has his own bike.
d. bikes or the cars equally.
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