Changes across age groups in self-choice elaboration and incidental memory.

Full Abstract

This study investigated differences in the self-choice elaboration and an experimenter-provided elaboration on incidental memory of 7- to 12-yr.-olds. In a self-choice elaboration condition 34 second and 25 sixth graders were asked to choose one of the two sentence frames into which each target could fit more congruously, whereas in an experimenter-provided elaboration they were asked to judge the congruity of each target to each frame. In free recall, sixth graders recalled targets in bizarre sentence frames better than second graders for self-choice elaboration condition. An age difference was not found for the experimenter-provided elaboration. In cued recall self-choice elaboration led to better performance of sixth graders for recalling targets than an experimenter-provided elaboration in both bizarre and common sentence frames. However, the different types of elaboration did not alter the recall of second graders. These results were interpreted as showing that the effectiveness of a self-choice elaboration depends on the subjects' age and the type of sentence.

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Author information

Author/s: Toyota, Hiroshi (H); Tatsumi, Tomoko (T);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Nara University of Education, Nara City, Japan.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Perceptual and motor skills (Percept Mot Skills), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Apr; vol 96 (issue 2) : pp 517-27

Dates: Created 2003/06/02; Completed 2003/09/30; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12776835, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Age Factors
Child
Choice Behavior
Cues
Female

Female
Humans
Male
Memory
Mental Recall

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