CLOA Social/cultural factors and memory

3 important questions on CLOA Social/cultural factors and memory

What is the key point of these studies into the effect of social or cultural factors on memory?

Memory is a universal human cognitive process, but how we remember is culturally and socially relative.

Why did memory improve when unschooled children were allowed to use a narrative method of remembering?

Because chunking and categorising were unfamiliar methods for them.

As well as using a familiar memory technique, how else can cross-cultural memory tasks be made more relevant?

By using objects that are familiar to the culture.

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