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Haden, Catherine A.; Ornstein, Peter A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009
Research on mother-child reminiscing about previously experienced events carried out over the last 20 years indicates clear linkages between mothers' use of an elaborative conversational style and children's developing skills for remembering. The articles that comprise this special issue utilize both longitudinal designs and experimental methods,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Memory, Sharing Behavior
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Van Bergen, Penny; Salmon, Karen; Dadds, Mark R.; Allen, Jennifer – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009
The present study examined the impact of training mothers in high-elaborative, emotional reminiscing on children's autobiographical memory and emotion knowledge. Eighty mothers were randomly allocated to one of two training conditions: in the "reminiscing" condition, mothers were encouraged to reminisce by asking their children (aged 3.5 to 5…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mothers, Instruction, Memory
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Kulkofsky, Sarah; Wang, Qi; Koh, Jessie Bee Kim – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009
This study examined maternal beliefs about the functions of memory sharing and the relations between these beliefs and mother-child reminiscing behaviors in a cross-cultural context. Sixty-three European American and 47 Chinese mothers completed an open-ended questionnaire concerning their beliefs about the functions of parent-child memory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Memory