CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Austin cannot remember Jack Smith’s name because he was not paying attention when Jack was formally introduced. Austin’s poor memory is BEST explained in terms of: encoding failure.

Detailed explanation-2: -Proactive interference occurs when old memories hinder the ability to make new memories. In this type of interference, old information inhibits the ability to remember new information, such as when outdated scientific facts interfere with the ability to remember updated facts.

Detailed explanation-3: -Retrieval is one of the best strategies to encode information into long-term memory. This strategy includes retrieving information by creating and taking a test. Creating tests allows the information to be processed at a deeper level. Retrieval is way better than just repeating something over and over.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hippocampus damage can particularly affect spatial memory, or the ability to remember directions, locations, and orientations. Because the hippocampus plays such an important role in the formation of new memories, damage to this part of the brain can have a serious long-term impact on certain types of memory.

Detailed explanation-5: -Learning and memory require the formation of new neural networks in the brain. A key mechanism underlying this process is synaptic plasticity at excitatory synapses, which connect neurons into networks.