What is your age-group or cohort? Describe at least three factors ...

[NguyenJ]

What is your age-group or cohort? Describe at least three factors or experiences that made your early education different from that of either your parents' generation or the generation in elementary school today.
 
  You may choose to focus on technology, educational philosophy,subject matter,changes in the society that affect how after-school hours are spent, and so
  forth. Use these examples to explain why researchers who study intelligence need to be conscious of cohort differences.
 
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Question 2

Choose an expert with whose work you are familiarfor example, an athlete or performer, a teacher, a businessperson, or a parent. Note the expert's age and experience, then describe the expert's performance in detail,
 
  emphasizing the ways in which the expert's performance
  differs from that of a novice in the same field. Identify any differences that seem to be age-related.
 
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[jgranad15]

Answer to Question 1

Answers will vary. Students will probably mention computers and related
technological changes as distinguishing features of their own experience and that of
the upcoming generation. Other recent changes include wider availability of
preschool and after-school programs, which add up to more time spent away from
home, and the various toys and programs aimed at teaching infants. Examples
chosen are less important than that students demonstrate an understanding of what
constitutes a cohort difference and of how such differences might affect learning.

Answer to Question 2

Answers will vary and should identify qualitative differences between the expert
and novice, such as more intuitive, more automatic, more strategic, and more
flexible.