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Human Development
Chapter 10
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11th Grade
02/25/2008

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Script
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General remembered outline of a familiar, repeated event; used to guide behavior
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Recognition
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Ability to recognize and identify a previously encountered stimulis
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Episodic Memory
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Long-term memory of specific experiences or events, linked to time and place
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Recall
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Ability to reproduce material from memory
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Generic Memory
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Memory that produces a script of familiar routines that guide behavior
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Autobiographical Memory
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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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Infantil Amnesia
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Implicit Memory
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Implicit Memory
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Explicit Memory
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