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Children's memory of recurring events: is the first event always the best remembered?
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posted on 2003-03-01, 00:00 authored by Martine Powell, Don ThomsonDon Thomson, S CeciThree experiments were conducted to examine the effect of age (4-5 and 6-8 years) and retention interval on children's ability to remember separate occurrences of a repeated event that varied in terms of content (items, dialog, etc.) Experiment 1 explored children's ability to recall the first versus last occurrence of a series of six events, at either one week or six weeks delay. Experiments 2 and 3 explored children's ability to identify the position of items in terms of their order of presentation within the series across two retention intervals. Overall, the results revealed clear age differences in children's performance. In general, the 6- to 8-year+old children performed better on all tasks than the 4- to 5-year-old children. Further, the older children showed relatively good memory of the first and last items compared to the middle items, although the last items were more likely to be forgotten or misplaced in the sequencing tasks over time that the first items. For the younger children, the patterns of results were sometimes but not always consistent with that of the older children The relevance and generalisability of these findings to the legal setting are discussed as well as directions for future research.
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Applied cognitive psychologyVolume
17Issue
2Pagination
127 - 146Publisher
John Wiley & Sons LtdLocation
Chichester, EnglandPublisher DOI
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0888-4080eISSN
1099-0720Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2002, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Usage metrics
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