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Tamás Káldi; Ágnes Szollosi; Mihály Racsmány – Child Development, 2025
Retrieval practice is known to enhance long-term memory retention, a phenomenon termed as retrieval practice effect. Two experiments (NWhite = 202), showed that the effect was present in preschool age (5-6 years) and had a boundary condition, namely, amount of initial learning. Specifically, there was a considerable effect only when children…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology)
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Jensen, Toril S.; Berntsen, Dorthe; Kingo, Osman S.; Krøjgaard, Peter – Child Development, 2022
Verbally reported long-term memory for past events typically improves with age. However, such findings are based exclusively on studies, where children are directly asked to recall. The present study showed that when 3- (n = 113, 59 girls) and 4-year-olds (n = 113, 62 girls), predominantly White, were brought back to a distinct laboratory-setting…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Cues, Recall (Psychology), Early Experience