Two developmental transitions in selective remembering strategies |
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Authors: | Norman W Bray Elaine M Justice David N Zahm |
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Institution: | The University of Alabama USA;Old Dominion University USA;University of Cincinnati USA |
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Abstract: | Two experiments were reported investigating developmental changes in the use of strategies to eliminate interference from irrelevant information in memory. The participants in the first were 7-, 9-, and 11-year-old children and those in the second were adults. In both experiments a directed forgetting paradigm was used in which the person was presented two sets of pictures but only recalled one set on a trial. On some trials there was a cue to forget the first set and to remember only the second set. There were two developmental transitions. The first was from ineffective to effective selective remembering which occurred between 7 and 11 years of age. The second, which occurred between 11 years of age and adulthood, was from the use of selective retrieval strategy to a more sophisticated rehearsal strategy. The implications of these two developmental transitions were discussed. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to Norman W Bray Department of Psychology Box 2968 The University of Alabama University AL 35486 |
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