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 Childrens health Cognitive development Comparative Analysis Crafts Cued recall Cues Developmental psychology Empirical Articles Family studies Female Free recall Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Games Human development Humans Interpersonal Communication Interviews Judgment Judgments Knowledge of Results (Psychology) Life events Male Memorization Memory Mental Recall Older children Prior knowledge Prior Learning Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Recall Recall (Psychology) Recognition (Psychology) Recognition memory Recreation Reproducibility of Results Retention (Psychology) Snacking Social Environment Social Perception Source memory Special events Suggestion Summarization Surveys Unaided recall Well-being Witnesses Word Recognition
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