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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

Concettualizzare la propria memoria, indicata come metamemoria, è spesso difficile da fare per i bambini piccoli.

Sebbene i bambini piccoli capiscano che le persone hanno pensieri e una quantità limitata di conoscenze, spesso hanno difficoltà a riconoscere i limiti delle proprie capacità di memoria, spesso sopravvalutando le proprie capaci...

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