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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 6/2023

25-12-2022 | Original Article

To ask or not to ask: strategic recall, but not spontaneous recall, decreases by the passage of time in 46-month-olds’ memory of a unique event

Auteurs: Trine Sonne, Toril S. Jensen, Osman S. Kingo, Dorthe Berntsen, Peter Krøjgaard

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2023

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Abstract

Children’s ability to intentionally recall events lessens with temporal distance to the occurrence. However, little is known about the effects of retention time on memories that emerge spontaneously. We examined spontaneous and strategic retrieval in eighty-one 46-month-olds' memory of a lab event after 1 week (the 1-week Condition) versus 43 weeks (the 43-week Condition) in a between-subjects design, using well-established procedures (Krøjgaard et al., in Consciousness and Cognition 55(91): 105, 2017). While spontaneous recall showed no significant effect of retention, the children’s strategic recall was negatively affected: even though the children overall still remembered the event, the children in the 43-week Condition showed reduced voluntary recall compared to the children in the 1-week Condition. To our knowledge, this is the first study to assess spontaneous recall after such a long retention interval. The findings add to existing evidence of two modes of retrieval in early childhood and are of both theoretical and forensic relevance.
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In previous studies, the coders also coded each utterance by use of a Coding Scheme measure. Given that the two measures repeatedly have shown close to identical results, we this time—for the sake of simplicity—only included the Word List measure (see also Sonne et al., 2022, for a similar procedure).
 
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Given that we failed to collect data from 3 children on the CDI measure, this analysis is based on 78 participants.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
To ask or not to ask: strategic recall, but not spontaneous recall, decreases by the passage of time in 46-month-olds’ memory of a unique event
Auteurs
Trine Sonne
Toril S. Jensen
Osman S. Kingo
Dorthe Berntsen
Peter Krøjgaard
Publicatiedatum
25-12-2022
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2023
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01783-8

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