Children's Eyewitness Memory for Multiple Real-Life Events

The present research examined the influence of prior knowledge on children's free recall, cued recall, recognition memory, and source memory judgments for a series of similar real-life events. Forty children (5-12 years old) attended 4 thematic birthday parties and were later interviewed about...

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Published in:Child development 2009-11, Vol.80 (6), p.1877-1890
Main Authors: Odegard, Timothy N., Cooper, Crystal M., Lampinen, James M., Reyna, Valerie F., Brainerd, Charles J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Age Differences
Age Factors
Age groups
Association
Attention
Behavioural psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Birthday parties
Birthdays
Child
Child Abuse, Sexual - diagnosis
Child Abuse, Sexual - legislation & jurisprudence
Child Development
Child molestation
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Cognitive development
Comparative Analysis
Crafts
Cues
Developmental psychology
Empirical Articles
Family studies
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Games
Human development
Humans
Interpersonal Communication
Interviews
Judgment
Judgments
Knowledge of Results (Psychology)
Male
Memorization
Memory
Mental Recall
Prior Learning
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Recall
Recall (Psychology)
Recognition (Psychology)
Recreation
Reproducibility of Results
Retention (Psychology)
Snacking
Social Environment
Social Perception
Source memory
Special events
Suggestion
Summarization
Surveys
Well-being
Word Recognition
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Summary:The present research examined the influence of prior knowledge on children's free recall, cued recall, recognition memory, and source memory judgments for a series of similar real-life events. Forty children (5-12 years old) attended 4 thematic birthday parties and were later interviewed about the events that transpired during the parties using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development protocol. Of the events, half were generic in that they could have occurred at any birthday party, and half were specific to the theme of the party. Older children demonstrated more evidence of using gist-based information to guide their memory performance than did younger children. However, younger children were able to use global gist to inform their source memory judgments, qualifying past word-learning research.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01373.x