What are the alternatives? Alternatives to Cognition: a New Look at Explaining Human Social Behaviour. Christina Lee. Lawrence Erlbaum Associations, Mahwah, NJ, 1998. No. of pages 161. ISBN 0-8058-2654-8
✍ Scribed by Cornelia B. Rea
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 47 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-4080
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✦ Synopsis
the chapter reviews the literature on encoding strategies namely rehearsal (both rote and elaborate) and organization. The chapter concludes with a discussion of retrieval strategy research and cross-cultural studies on strategy development.
Chapter 5 is an engaging review of the metamemory research done with children and adolescents. It pays tribute to Flavell's vast contribution to the area of metamemory and discusses the predominant research from roughly 1970 until today. The chapter discusses the development of metamemory and memory monitoring. In the development of metamemory, the authors discuss research that analyses children's knowledge of mental verbs, person variables, task variables, text and structure, and memory strategies. Research discussing memory monitoring includes children's performance when predicting accuracy, understanding that some items might be `on the tip of the tongue', preparedness for test taking, and understanding when additional study time is required.
Overall this is an excellent review of a specialized topic, namely children's memory development between the ages of 2 and 20. The book contains many historical and current research ®ndings in this ®eld of cognitive development and includes a rather substantial bibliography that students can use for related coursework or research.