Effort, interest, and recall: beliefs and behaviors of preschoolers

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to investigate preschoolers' beliefs about the relations between effort, interest and recall, and to determine the realism of these beliefs. It was found that the research participants believed that other children their age would try harder to remember if they were highly interested in the task and that these extra efforts would improve recall. The results indicate that the first belief held true for boys but not for girls. No evidence was found to support the second belief. These findings suggest the children's beliefs about effort-interest-recall relations are generally naive.

Preschool children, Memory in children, Children's memory, Belief and doubt, Recall, Recall (Law), Interest (Psychology)

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Children's metamemory about the influence of conceptual relations on recall

Article Abstract:

Metamemory about the impact of conceptual relations in free recall is evident at each stage of children's development. However, the nature of metamemory changes with age. In a study in which first, third, and fifth grade children had to recall words memorized from two lists of related and unrelated words, recall performance for the related words list was better. Older children exhibited effective conceptual relationships and use of organizational strategies to facilitate recall.

Analysis, Child development, Recollection (Psychology), Metacognition, Recall (Memory), Categorization (Psychology) in children, Childhood categorization (Psychology)

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Preschoolers' beliefs about effort, incentives, and recall

Article Abstract:

A study conducted by researchers from the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada used two experiments of 4-year old children to analyze the effects of effort and performance incentives on recall. The study also measured the connection between these beliefs, memory behavior, and performance. Differences in effort deployment during the study were not linked with differences in recall.

Child psychology, Memory

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