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Measuring the Development of Children’s Amnesia and Hypermnesia

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Development of Long-Term Retention

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The study of memory development in childhood has, for the most part, focused on processes involved in the initial acquisition of information, with considerably less attention having been directed at understanding the ontogeny of long-term retention processes. The paucity of research on this latter topic may be due to a general failure in the past to identify significant age trends in children’s long-term retention (for recent reviews, see Brainerd, Kingma, & Howe, 1985; Howe & Brainerd, 1989). When reliable age differences have been observed, they tend to be small in absolute magnitude (Fajnsztejn-Pollack, 1973; Hasher & Thomas, 1973; Kagan, Klein, Haith, & Morrison, 1973; Lehman, Mikesell, & Doherty, 1985; Morrison, Haith, & Kagan, 1980; Nelson, 1971; Rogoff, Newcombe, & Kagan, 1974; Sophian & Perlmutter, 1980; Wagner, 1978; Wickelgren, 1975).

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  1. Department of Psychology, Memorial University, A1B 3X9, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

    Mark L. Howe PhD

  2. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Charles J. Brainerd  & Valerie F. Reyna PhD  & 

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Howe, M.L., Kelland, A., Bryant-Brown, L., Clark, S.L. (1992). Measuring the Development of Children’s Amnesia and Hypermnesia. In: Howe, M.L., Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F. (eds) Development of Long-Term Retention. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2868-4_2

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