Developmental and Individual Differences in Young Children's Use and Maintenance of a Selective Memory Strategy

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1034-1050

  Schwenck, Christina ^a   Bjorklund, David F ^b   Schneider, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

prompting; recall; selective memory strategy; strategic memory task

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; RECOGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 67651114161     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015597     Document Type: Article

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