Realist errors in children's responses to pictures and words as representations
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Some children aged three and four make realist mistakes about both the content of pictures and words and about operations carried out on the referents of these external representations. It appears that children of this age understand that a picture or a name which presents a real referent should indicate the referent's identity. They generally do not, or cannot, pay attention at the same time to the physical properties of the picture as an item in itself. It seems likely that the occurrence of realist updating errors could represent a significant stage in the development of understanding about representation.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1999
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Children's susceptibility to retroactive interference: the effects of age and degree of learning
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Research has disclosed significant differences between 4- and 7-year-olds' ability to remember and their susceptibility to retroactive interference. The older children showed higher memory accuracy although the susceptibility to interference was not a factor at any age.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 2001
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Effects of drawing on children's item recall
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Research describing the investigation of memory recall in children is presented. In particular the effect of drawing for facilitating recall is examined and found to be contrary to previous assumptions.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 2001
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