Memory Strategies/ Rehearsal, Organization & Elaboration

1. Memory Strategies/ Rehearsal, Organization & Elaboration

2. Recall • Requires retention of pieces of information • Recall is more difficult for young children than recognition • Associated with language development and skills • Remembering in the absence of perceptual support

3. Recognition • ability to tell whether a stimulus is similar to one they have seen • preschoolers have a certain aptitude of recognition and recall. • List an example of recognition and an example of recall.

4. Memory Strategies • Deliberate mental activities that improve our chances of remembering • Involve organization or rehearsal • What memory strategies have you observed preschoolers participate in or use.

5. Organization • Grouping together related items • Combine items into meaningful chunks • They can be retrieved by thinking of similar characteristics • Older children organize more skillfully and use a more wide range of memory tasks

6. Rehearsal • Tendency to experiment • Can be performed by repeating items over and over • Requires time and effort

7. Elaboration • Creating a relationship or shared meaning between two or more items that are not members of the same category • Starts being used by children by the end of middle childhood • Information can be retrieved by thinking of associated items

8. Everyday Experiences • Scripts: general descriptions of what occurs and when it occurs in a particular situation • Adults must work hard to obtain preschoolers’ scripted reports • Episodic: memory for everyday experience