Abstract: In this experiment, 20 gifted children (11 years and 2 months old irsaverage) and 20 normal children (11 years and 3 months old in average l,were tested, and numerical and figural materials were used to detect thememory and the memory monitoring of the gifted and the normal. Theresults' of the two groups were compared. The results showned that ( 1 );the gifted are superior to the normal not only in the amount of recall andthe speed of remembering, but in some aspects of metamemory, such as.memory monitoring and memory organization~ etc. ~( g ) the reiationshipbetween the memory performance and the memory monitoring is compli-cated~ but the speed of remembering, as one important aspects of memo-ry performance, has a significant correlation with the memory monitor-ing~ (8) there is a close correlation between the two components of'metamemory, the memory monitoring and the organization of memory.

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