The Development of Clustering in Episodic Memory: A Cognitive-Modeling Approach.
Child Dev
; 92(1): 239-257, 2021 01.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32885842
Younger children's free recall from episodic memory is typically less organized than recall by older children. To investigate if and how repeated learning opportunities help children use organizational strategies that improve recall, the authors analyzed category clustering across four study-test cycles. Seven-year-olds, 10-year-olds, and young adults (N = 150) studied categorically related words for a free-recall task. The cognitive processes underlying recall and clustering were measured with a multinomial model. The modeling revealed that developmental differences emerged particularly in the rate of learning to encode words as categorical clusters. The learning curves showed a common pattern across age groups, indicating developmental invariance. Memory for individual items also contributed to developmental differences and was the only factor driving 7-year-olds' moderate improvements in recall.
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Assunto principal:
Tempo de Reação
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Rememoração Mental
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Cognição
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Memória Episódica
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Modelos Psicológicos
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Child Dev
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article