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| General remembered outline of a familiar, repeated event; used to guide behavior |
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| Ability to recognize and identify a previously encountered stimulis |
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| Long-term memory of specific experiences or events, linked to time and place |
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| Ability to reproduce material from memory |
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| Memory that produces a script of familiar routines that guide behavior |
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| Memory of specific events in one's own life |
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| Standford- Binet Intelligence Scale |
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| Individual intelligence test used with children to measure memory, spatial orientation, and practical judgement |
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| Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence |
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| Individual intelligence test for children ages 3-7, which yields verbal and performance scores as well as a combined score |
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| What is the reliability of episodic memory, especially in law suits? |
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| They are not very reliable because they are temporary memories. Unless they reoccur several times, they tend to last a few weeks or months then fade away. |
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| What kind of situations can children recall better that others? |
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| Unique events help the memory to last longer |
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| When does autobiographical memory begin? |
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| It begins around the age of 4 |
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| Who develops autobiographical memory earlier? |
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| First borns and girls of a higher social class who show early language development |
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| What can influence how well a child rememberes things? |
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| The way an adult or parent talks to the child about the memory effects the ability to remeber. (Mother's conversational style) |
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| What effects the early development of language and memory? |
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| The intelligence of the child |
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| Who or what can effect a child's IQ? |
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| Warm, loving, and sensitive parents with an authoritative parenting style can effect the IQ. The child's tempament, social and emotional ability, literacy skills, and socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds can also be influential. |
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| How are IQ tests administered to the middle childhood age group? |
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| The children are asked to draw, complete mazes and puzzles, connect dots,string beads, etc. The tests are split into two sessions or one 30 min session. |
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| What does the IQ score represent? |
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| The IQ score represents how well a child can do certain tasks in comparison with others thier same age. |
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| Why have test developers raised the standardized norms of the IQ test? |
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| The norms have changed due to educational television, preschools, better educated parents, and a child's exposure to a wider variety of expereinces. |
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| What should a full day kindergarten program be like? |
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| A program should be child centered and provide social and emotional growth. |
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| What is considered a good preschool and what should it's goals be? |
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| It should simtulate the child physicalls, emotionally, cognitively,and provide experiences where the child learns by doing. |
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| How do children from more academic preschools turn out? |
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| Children learn more at first but then are stifled and have interferences with thier own self directed learning. They are often neglected in terms of imagniation and exploration. |
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| How are disadvantaged children verses advantaged children in terms of school success? |
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| Deprived children make as much progress as more advantaged children but still remain behind. |
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| How does poverty effect IQ? |
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| Poverty lowers IQ scores. |
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| How does the amount of risk factors the child is exposed to effect thier IQ? |
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| The more risk factors, the lower the IQ score. |
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| What are the most sucessful Head Start programs like? |
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| They involve the most parental participation. |
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| How sucessful have Head Start programs been? |
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| Very sucessful but low funding |
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| Which types of memory develop latest? |
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| What did the research program in Canada state about the age of kindergarteneres? |
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