Verbal recall measures? Average number of items reported during the free recall phase
idea of “items” is too vague. Actions?
Started after 3; oldest ones are not very coherent
At all ages, verbal recall lagged behind general verbal skill AND behavioral reenactment AND photograph identification
Translation of a nonverbal experience to a verbal one is the major difficulty
Interesting findings: children use their linguistic capacity during the time of encoding, when interviewed about events after delays of 6 months or 1 year
Do not use vocabulary that was not the part of their productive vocabulary during the time of original encoding
Core idea: construction of AM is highly dependent on early parent-child conversations about the past
Vygotsky: higher mental functions develop thru social interaction rather than solely as a result of general cognitive change
Through these conversations children learn the conventionalized narrative forms which eventually provide a structure for internally represented memories
This is not a claim saying that children are unable to remember specific episodes before they have internalized the culturally provided narrative forms for recounting the past (Bauer, Nelson, Simcock & Hayne, etc.)
This is not a claim saying that children are unable to remember specific episodes before they have internalized the culturally provided narrative forms for recounting the past (Bauer, Nelson, Simcock & Hayne, etc.)
Scripts are how very early memories are represented
Adult-guided conversations about shared events help to modify representations of personally significant events to conform more to culturally canonical narratives
But thru internalization of culturally provided narrative forms, children change the ways in which they internally represent their past experiences
Primary factor vs. Multiple influence theories
Primary factor vs. Multiple influence theories
Role of self understanding (Howe, Povinelli– delayed self recognition)
