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Peer reviewedHowe, Mark L.; Courage, Mary L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Used path analysis in two experiments to examine possibility that age difference in infants' long-term retention were artifacts of correlated differences in learning rates or learning opportunities. Found that developmental declines in forgetting rates between 12 and 18 months were independent of developmental differences in learning. Age…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Individual Development, Infants
Peer reviewedHowe, Mark L.; Courage, Mary L.; Vernescu, Roxana; Hunt, Melvine – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Three experiments examined kindergartners' and second graders' retention in the context of two distinctiveness manipulations, the von Restorff and bizarre imagery paradigms. Results showed that: older children retained more information from lists of pictures or interactive images over 3 weeks than younger; younger children failed to benefit from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
