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Developmental Psychology

Children Estimating Their Memory Skills

Description

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

La conceptualisation de sa propre mémoire, appelée métamémoire, est souvent difficile à réaliser pour les jeunes enfants.

Bien que les jeunes enfants comprennent que les gens ont des pensées et une quantité limitée de connaissances, ils ont souvent du mal à reconnaître les limites de leurs propres capacités de mémoire, surestimant souvent ...

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