Knowing and Remembering in Young Children

by Edited by Robyn Fivush , Judith A. Hudson

• ISBN13: 9780521125819
• ISBN10: 0521125812
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

What kinds of memory demands are placed on young children and how are social interactions structured to allow children to develop various memory skills? Are there changes in children's representational abilities that lead to different memory abilities? How do individual differences affect children's memory performance? Are there age-related changes in children's autobiographical memories? These are among the questions addressed in this third volume in the Emory Cognition Project series, originally published in 1990. Although the contributors examine memory in different ways, they share the view that memory can no longer be considered a distinct and separate cognitive process isolated from other cognitive processes; rather, remembering is viewed as a cognitive activity embedded in larger social and cognitive tasks. This view is the culmination of several changes that took place in the field of cognitive development during the decade preceding publication.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of contributors

Introduction: what young children remember and why

Remembering what happened next: very young children's recall of event sequences

Developmental differences in the relation between scripts and episodic memory: do they exist?

Children's organisation of events and event memories

Young children's understanding of models

Children's play interests, representation and activity

The emergence of autobiographical memory in mother-child conversation

The social and functional context of children's remembering

Autobiographical memory across the preschool years: toward reconceptualising childhood amnesia

Children's concerns and memory: issues of ecological validity in the study of children's eyewitness testimony

The suggestibility of preschoolers' recollections: historical perspectives on current problems

Remembering, forgetting and childhood amnesia

Recall and its verbal expression

Learning from the children

Indexes

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