Author Question: Emir's mother read a list of words to him that he was supposed to remember. After a short pause, ... (Read 68 times)

crobinson2013 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Emir's mother read a list of words to him that he was supposed to remember. After a short pause, Emir's mother asked him to name as many of the words from the list as he could remember. This type of memory task is called

a. recognition. c. the primacy effect.
b. free recall. d. the recency effect.

Question 2

Research on developmental changes in memory span suggests that

a. developmental growth in memory span result from enhancements in the ability to employ memory strategies.
b. developmental growth in memory span result from the child's discovery of reversibility.
c. the short-term storage capacity, or hardware, of memory increases with age.
d. the short-term storage capacity of memory decreases with age to allow for increases in long-term storage.