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Köber, Christin; Habermas, Tilmann – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
In Western cultures, life narratives are typically expected to recount the narrator's life from birth to the present. Disparate autobiographical memories need to be integrated into a more or less coherent story, which is facilitated by an overarching temporal macrostructure. The temporal macrostructure consists of elaborated beginnings that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Autobiographies, Time
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Fandakova, Yana; Shing, Yee Lee; Lindenberger, Ulman – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Based on a 2-component framework of episodic memory development across the lifespan (Shing & Lindenberger, 2011), we examined the contribution of memory-related binding and monitoring processes to false memory susceptibility in childhood and old age. We administered a repeated continuous recognition task to children (N = 20, 10-12 years),…
Descriptors: Memory, Recall (Psychology), Concept Formation, Cognitive Processes
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Schneider, Wolfgang; Knopf, Monika; Stefanek, Jan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
Assesses developmental changes in verbal memory from the beginning of elementary school to late adolescence on the basis of data from the Munich Longitudinal Study. Suggests that overall, individual differences in verbal memory performance develop very early in life and are relatively unaffected by differences in educational experiences. (Contains…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Individual Development