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Lyons, Kristen E.; Ghetti, Simona; Cornoldi, Cesare – Developmental Science, 2010
Using a new method for studying the development of false-memory formation, we examined developmental differences in the rates at which 6-, 7-, 9-, 10-, and 18-year-olds made two types of memory errors: backward causal-inference errors (i.e. falsely remembering having viewed the non-viewed cause of a previously viewed effect), and gap-filling…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Age Differences, Memory, Inferences
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Ghetti, Simona; Castelli, Paola; Lyons, Kristen E. – Developmental Science, 2010
Children aged 7 and younger encounter great difficulty in assessing whether lack of memory for an event indicates that the event was not experienced. The present research investigated whether this difficulty results from a general inability to evaluate memory absence or from a specific inability to monitor one feature of memory absence that has…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Memory, Children, Adults