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The development of the memorability-based strategy: insight from a training study
Simona Ghetti1, Silvia Papini, Laura Angelini
1Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA. sghetti@ucdavis.edu
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
|March 28, 2006
Summary
Training can enhance children's memory recall and rejection of false events. Older children specifically benefit from memorability-based training to reject imagined bizarre events, indicating strategy development during elementary school.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
Background:
- The memorability-based strategy aids in rejecting nonexperienced events.
- Understanding how to train this strategy is crucial for memory development.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate if memorability-based strategy training can be improved.
- To compare memorability-based training with source-monitoring training and no specific training.
Main Methods:
- 142 children (6-10 years) enacted actions.
- Misinformation was introduced 18 days later.
- Children were questioned 5 days after misinformation.
Main Results:
- Both training groups recalled more true events than the control group.
- Older children with memorability-based training better rejected suggested bizarre events.
- Age and action type influenced metacognitive assessments of false event rejection.
Conclusions:
- Memorability-based strategy training enhances true event recall in children.
- The ability to reject suggested bizarre events using this strategy develops later in childhood.
- Age is a significant factor in the development and application of memory strategies.