Differential memory-preserving effects of reminders at 6 months
| Autor: | Becky Sweeney, Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Karen Hildreth |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Long-term memory Memoria education Infant Retention Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognition Audiology Task (project management) Developmental psychology Memory Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Functional significance Conditioning Operant Humans Female Psychology Child psychological phenomena and processes |
| Zdroj: | Journal of experimental child psychology. 84(1) |
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 |
| Popis: | Although reactivation and reinstatement reminders differ procedurally, differences in their memory-preserving effects have been described as artifactual. In three experiments, we examined this conclusion. One hundred and twelve 6-month-olds learned an operant task, forgot it, received a reactivation or reinstatement reminder to recover the inactive memory, and were tested after increasing delays until they forgot it again. In Experiments 1a and 1b, a single reactivation reminder extended infants' memory of an operant mobile task for 2 weeks after reminding, but a single reinstatement extended it for 4 weeks, when testing was discontinued. In Experiment 2, a single reinstatement extended 6-month-olds' memory of an operant train task for 19 weeks after reminding, when infants were almost 1 year old. After reactivation, infants remember this task for only 2 weeks. The finding that the memory-preserving effect of reinstatement is greater by an order of magnitude suggests that procedural differences between the two reminders have functional significance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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