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Peer reviewedHowe, Mark L.; Courage, Mary L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Used path analysis in two experiments to examine possibility that age difference in infants' long-term retention were artifacts of correlated differences in learning rates or learning opportunities. Found that developmental declines in forgetting rates between 12 and 18 months were independent of developmental differences in learning. Age…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Individual Development, Infants
A Different View of Metamemory with Illustrations from Children's Beliefs about Long-Term Retention.
Peer reviewedO'Sullivan, Julia T.; Howe, Mark L. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1998
Argues that metamemory should be conceptualized as personalized, constructed knowledge consisting of accurate and naive beliefs. Illustrates the advantages of such a conceptualization using data about the development of children's beliefs about long-term retention. Concludes by sketching future directions for research in this area. (DSK)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Psychology, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes
