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Event Recall (event + recall)
Selected AbstractsDevelopmental progression in the confidence-accuracy relationship in event recall: insights provided by a calibration perspectiveAPPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 7 2007Pauline Howie The development of discrimination and realism was investigated in the event recall of 156 8-year-olds, 133 10-year-olds and 146 adults, using categorical confidence judgements. Target questions were either a mixture of misleading and unbiased (,non-bombardment'), or restricted to one question format (,bombardment'). The confidence judgements of all age groups discriminated between incorrect and correct responses to unbiased questions, but with misleading questions, this ability was undermined in the children, particularly when ,bombarded'. Calibration-style analyses of unbiased questions revealed a systematic confidence,accuracy association across age and question mix for unbiased questions. For misleading questions, however, the absence of a drop in performance from intermediate to low confidence at all ages suggested relative underconfidence at the lowest confidence level. At high confidence levels, there was evidence of realistic congruence between confidence and performance in adults, but this was not the case in the 10-year-olds when bombarded with misleading questions, or in the 8-year-olds, regardless of bombardment. Exploratory analyses of question difficulty revealed poor calibration across ages for difficult unbiased questions, and in the 8-year-olds, even for easy unbiased questions when intermixed with misleading questions. Bombardment with difficult misleading questions further undermined children's calibration. Implications for the role of social and cognitive factors in the development of metacognitive monitoring are discussed. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Do early interviews affect children's long-term event recall?APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 7 2004Margaret-Ellen Pipe The present study examined the effects of the timing of an initial interview on children's recall of an event over delays of 1 and 2 years. Fifty-five children who had originally participated in a novel event when they were between 5- and 6-years old and had been interviewed about it following either short (1 week or less) or long (1 or 6 month) delays were re-interviewed 1 and 2 years after the original experience. An additional 20 children not interviewed prior to the 1-year interview were included as a no-prior-interview control group. Long delays to the initial interview led to better open-ended recall at the 1-year delay than short delays to initial interview or no prior interview. However, initial interviews that followed short delays had a greater impact on children's responses to specific questions. The results suggest that prior interview history is an important consideration when examining the effects of long delays on children's event reports, and that the effects of the timing of an initial interview depend on the nature of the information recalled. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The Time to Talk: The Influence of the Timing of Adult,Child Talk on Children's Event MemoryCHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 3 2004Fiona McGuigan To investigate the influence of the nature and timing of adult,child talk on event recall, this study engaged 63 three-year-olds and 65 five-year-olds in a staged event and interviewed them 2 weeks later. Children were assigned to 1 of 4 conditions: elaborative pre-, during-, and post-talk, and empty talk (during the event). Children in the elaborative, relative to the empty, talk conditions made fewer errors. Furthermore, post-talk had the greatest influence on correct recall, although for the 5-year-olds, during-talk was also facilitative. Recall was enhanced to a greater extent by the child's contribution to the talk, relative to that of the adult. The findings contribute to an understanding of the mechanisms by which adult,child conversations influence recall. [source] | ||||||||||