An educational psychologist notes that a child's digit span typically increases from around 4 digits at age 4 to about 7 digits by age 12.
Identify one developmental factor, other than the use of memory strategies, that can account for this increase in memory capacity, and describe how it influences memory performance.
177 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Content, covering Working memory model, Multi-store model of memory, Episodic and semantic long-term memory, Reconstructive memory and schema theory, Individual differences in memory, and Developmental psychology in memory. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.