Explaining variance in long-term recall in 3- and 4-year-old children: The importance of post-encoding processes |
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Authors: | Bauer Patricia J Larkina Marina Doydum Ayzit O |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. |
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Abstract: | Long-term recall is influenced by what originally was encoded as well as by the efficacy of retrieval processes. The possible explanatory role of post-encoding processes by which initially labile memory traces are stabilized and integrated into long-term memory (i.e., consolidated) has received relatively less research attention. In the current research, we examined 3- and 4-year-old children's recall of multi-step event sequences immediately after seeing them modeled as a measure of encoding, 1week later as a measure of the status of the memory trace post-encoding, and 1month later as an assessment of long-term recall. We tested recall of events with three different levels of internal structure and with three different levels of support for retrieval. Measures of the post-encoding status of the memory trace explained significant variance in long-term recall when they were the sole predictors of performance, and they contributed unique variance in long-term recall even after accounting for the variance associated with encoding. The results imply that a complete explanation of forgetting during childhood must include not only roles for encoding and retrieval processes but also roles for post-encoding processes. |
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