Why Does the Memory Strategy of Elaboration Emerge Fairly Late

question 151

Multiple Choice

Why does the memory strategy of elaboration emerge fairly late in development?

• A)Young children may not have the knowledge base needed for generating elaborative mediators.
• B)Young children may not have the creativity needed to generate elaborative images.
• C)Young children may be too creative and generate too many elaborative mediators to be effective.
• D)Elaboration often relies on three-dimensional imagery rather than words

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Definitions:

Unimodal Distribution

A type of distribution that has a single peak or mode, showing one predominant frequency of data points.

Negatively Skewed Distribution

A distribution shape where the tail is on the left side, indicating that the bulk of values are concentrated on the right.

Mode

The number that occurs the greatest number of times in a series of data.

Median

The middle value in a data set when the values are arranged in order, or average of the two middle values when there is an even number of observations.