Schooling Influences Memory Abilities by Helping Children

question 86

Multiple Choice

Schooling influences memory abilities by helping children:

• A) obtain experience remembering items tied to any everyday script.
• B) increase their memory capacity.
• C) develop specialized memory strategies that help them remember arbitrary items.
• D) engage in concrete operational thinking.

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Definitions:

Normal Approximation

Normal approximation is a statistical technique that applies the properties of the normal distribution to approximate the distribution of sample data or statistics.

Standardized Test Statistic

A value computed from sample data and the null hypothesis that measures how many standard deviations the sample data falls from the hypothesized value.

Alternative Hypothesis

In statistical hypothesis testing, the hypothesis that suggests there is an effect or a difference, as opposed to the null hypothesis which suggests there is no effect or difference.

P-Value

The probability of obtaining test results at least as extreme as the results actually observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is correct.