Developmental Psychology · 1999 · 87 citations · 23 references
Specific Cue ItemsEducationCognitionEarly Childhood EducationHuman MemorySocial SciencesPsychologyDevelopmental PsychologyCognitive DevelopmentMemoryRecall 1Child PsychologyCognitive ScienceEarly Childhood DevelopmentExperimental PsychologyChild DevelopmentImplicit MemoryMnemonicFree RecallMemory LossCue ItemsTrauma In Child
In Study 1, children were reinterviewed about an event they had taken part in 2 years earlier when they were 6 years old (M.-E. Pipe & J. C. Wilson, 1994). In Study 2, children were reinterviewed about an event in which they had participated 1 year earlier when they were 6 or 9 years of age (S. Gee & M.-E. Pipe, 1995). Interviews were conducted with or without cue items and distractors, as in the original studies. The amount of information reported in free recall decreased over the 1- or 2-year delays, and for 6-year-olds, there was also a small decrease in accuracy of free recall. Reinstating specific cue items in Study 2 maintained recall when attention was drawn to them, but prompting children led to a decrease in accuracy. Whereas information repeated across interviews was highly accurate, information reported for the first time at the long delays was not.
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