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HOW WELL DO CHILDREN REMEMBER WHAT THEY HAVE RECALLED?
Author(s) -
GOODMAN CATHY,
GARDINER J. M.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1981.tb02460.x
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , developmental psychology , free recall , test (biology) , memory test , cognition , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
S ummary . After a series of immediate free recall trials children were given an unexpected recall‐recognition test, results of which showed that younger children, aged about 6 years, were quite poor at discriminating between previously recalled and non‐recalled list items and that they were much less accurate than older children aged about 8 years or more (N = 14 per group). The findings suggest that young children may be generally quite inaccurate in assessing their previous recall performance, and this suggestion was discussed in relation to the development of other memory skills.