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Developmental Psychology

Children Estimating Their Memory Skills

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Children estimating their memory skills is an example of metamemory, the ability to think about one’s own memory. Metamemory is one part of metacognition, which includes the broader skills people use to think about their own knowledge and thinking.

Human memory is fallible, and people often do no...

Transcript

对自身记忆进行思考,即所谓的元记忆,对幼儿来说往往很难做到。

尽管幼儿明白人们拥有思想和有限的知识,但他们常常难以承认自身记忆能力的局限性,往往高估自己的能力。

重要的是,他们在小学阶段准确评估自身记忆能力的水平逐渐提高,并开始采用类似成人的策略,例如通过列清单来增强信息的回忆。

本视频演示了如何设计和实施一项针对学龄儿童元记忆的研究实验,以及如何分析和解释涉及预测记忆与实际记忆回忆的结果。

在本实验中,首先要求两个年龄组(6岁和9岁)的儿童在看到物品之前,预测他们认为自己能记住物体的程度。

在观察完物体并经过一段短暂的延迟后,儿童需要完成一些干扰性谜题以防止复述,随后被要求尽可能多地回忆所看到的物体。

此处,因...

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Metamemory DevelopmentMemory Prediction AccuracyChildren Memory EstimationExperimental Design ChildrenDelay Period AnalysisPrediction Recall ComparisonAge Group ComparisonChi Square TestObject Recall TaskDistractor Puzzles Method