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Iryna Schommartz; Angela M. Kaindl; Claudia Buss; Yee Lee Shing – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Childhood is a period when memory consolidation and knowledge base undergo rapid changes. The present study examined short-delay (overnight) and long-delay (after a 2-week period) consolidation of new information either congruent or incongruent with prior knowledge in typically developing 6- to 8-year-old children (n = 32), 9- to 11-year-old…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Children, Memory, Prior Learning
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Otgaar, Henry; Howe, Mark L.; Brackmann, Nathalie; van Helvoort, Daniël H. J. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
We examined whether typical developmental trends in suggestion-induced false memories (i.e., age-related decrease) could be changed. Using theoretical principles from the spontaneous false memory field, we adapted 2 often-used false memory procedures: misinformation (Experiment 1) and memory conformity (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, 7- to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Adults, Memory
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Shono, Yusuke; Edwards, Michael C.; Ames, Susan L.; Stacy, Alan W. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Indirect tests of memory associations relevant to cannabis have been shown to be useful in explaining and predicting adolescent cannabis use habits. This study sought to increase the understanding of adolescent cannabis-related associative memory and cannabis use behavior over time. A longitudinal sample of alternative high school students (N =…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Memory, Adolescents, Psychometrics
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Cramer, Phebe – Developmental Psychology, 1974
False recognition errors in elementary school children were studied using word association tasks. Data obtained validated the developmental changes in the dominant dimensions of associative organization. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students
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Hall, James W.; Halperin, Marcia S. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
The present study tested the feasibility of using a purely verbal recognition-memory procedure with young children and examined the role of verbal associations in the memory encoding of such children. (Author)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Data Analysis, Memory, Pattern Recognition
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Cramer, Phebe – Developmental Psychology, 1972
The possible interaction between age-relevant facilitative instructions and the occurrence of phonetic and semantic generalization was investigated. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Error Patterns, Grade 1