Studies of children's metamemory show that
a. young children seem to have no knowledge of the way their memory works.
b. young children don't seem to realize that you must use effort in order to learn a list of words.
c. there are no substantial improvements in metamemory during childhood.
d. children are surprisingly accurate in judging whether they have remembered an answer correctly.
Question 2
Which of the following students provides the best summary of the research on children's metamemory?
a. Arthur: Children understand some of the characteristics of memory, but they don't realize that you need to make a real effort in order to memorize something.
b. Maya: Children have very little awareness of any aspects of metacognition until they have reached school age.
c. Katarina: Children develop metacognitive abilities much earlier than psychologists had previously suspected; these skills are quite sophisticated by the time children reach school age.
d. Luke: Unfortunately, it is difficult to assess cognitive skills in preschool children; but 5-year-olds have metacognitive skills that resemble the skills of 10-year-olds.
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