Aslan, Alp and Baeuml, Karl-Heinz T. (2014) Later Maturation of the Beneficial Than the Detrimental Effect of Selective Memory Retrieval. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 25 (4). pp. 1025-1030. ISSN 0956-7976, 1467-9280
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In adults, selective memory retrieval can both impair and improve recall of other memories. The study reported here examined whether children also show these two faces of memory retrieval. Employing a variant of the directed-forgetting task, we asked second, fourth, and seventh graders to study a list of target and nontarget words. After study, the participants received a cue to either forget or continue remembering the list. We subsequently asked some participants to recall the nontarget words before we tested their memory for the target words; for the remaining participants, we tested memory only for the target words. Prior retrieval of nontarget words impaired retrieval of to-be-remembered target words, regardless of children's age. In contrast, prior retrieval of nontarget words improved recall of to-be-forgotten target words in seventh graders, though not in fourth and second graders. These results suggest a developmental dissociation between the two faces of memory retrieval and indicate later maturation of the beneficial effect than of the detrimental effect of selective memory retrieval.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | YOUNG-CHILDREN; FREE-RECALL; INHIBITION; MECHANISMS; INTERVIEW; CONTEXT; AGE; cognitive development; episodic memory |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV (Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bäuml |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2019 09:57 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2019 09:57 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/10393 |
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