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Malcolm, Sarah; Defeyter, Margaret A.; Friedman, Ori – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
In everyday life, we are often faced with the problem of judging who owns an object. The current experiments show that children and adults base ownership judgments on group stereotypes, which relate kinds of people to kinds of objects. Moreover, the experiments show that reliance on stereotypes can override another means by which people make…
Descriptors: Adults, Ownership, Stereotypes, Inferences
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Swannell, Ellen R.; Dewhurst, Stephen A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
The effect of list length on children's false memories was investigated using list and story versions of the Deese/Roediger-McDermott procedure. Short (7 items) and long (14 items) sequences of semantic associates were presented to children aged 6, 8, and 10 years old either in lists or embedded within a story that emphasized the list theme.…
Descriptors: Memory, Semantics, Children, Recall (Psychology)