According to the research on children's memory strategies,
a. even very young children make excellent use of the rehearsal strategy.
b. rehearsal is one of the most effective memory strategies.
c. young children typically group similar items together in order to learn lists of words.
d. young children can remember better if they use rehearsal strategies, but they typically do not use them spontaneously.
Question 2
Suppose that a 4-year-old and a 10-year-old are working together to make a surprise birthday card for their father. Later, they tell their father which parts each of them constructed. Based on the material in Chapter 13, you would expect to find that
a. the two children have similar accuracy, because working memory does not vary much with age.
b. the two children have similar accuracy, because source monitoring does not vary much with age.
c. the older child is more accurate, because the 4-year-old child will demonstrate almost complete childhood amnesia.
d. the older child is more accurate, because source monitoring is more accurate for older children.
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