You Have Been Tasked with a Longitudinal Study Involving Interviews

question 3

Multiple Choice

You have been tasked with a longitudinal study involving interviews with a group of individuals as they age from 5 to 40.At the onset of the project,you decide it would be helpful to try to predict which children may be later labelled as deviant.Based on the textbook discussion of deviants,which child do you predict will be so labelled?

• A)Robert really enjoys baseball and is very physically active.He sometimes gets in fights with other children,especially when they do not follow the rules.
• B)Phillip is a nice boy,but he often eats his crayons and paste.
• C)Jenny talks a lot during story hour and has trouble sitting still.She often talks over other students and the teacher.
• D)Susan generally enjoys school and follows directions well.However,she has trouble making friends.

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where older memories interfere with the recall of newer memories.

Negative Interference

Occurs when past learning inhibits or interferes with the recall of later learning.

Savings Scores

A measure in psychology that quantifies the amount of learning retained over a period of time.

Measuring Forgetting

The process of determining the extent to which information is no longer retrievable from memory over time.