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SUMMARY:Children's memories for repeated events: Helping them to recall in
 dividual episodes and unique details - Sonja Brubacher (Department of Psyc
 hology\, Wilfred Laurier University)
DTSTART:20100514T120000Z
DTEND:20100514T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The talk will focus on one main paper investigating children
 ’s recall of unique features embedded in repeated events.  ABSTRACT: Pre
 school and school-age children’s memory and source monitoring were inves
 tigated by questioning them about one occurrence of a repeated lab event (
 n = 39). Each of the four occurrences had the same structure\, but with va
 rying alternatives for the specific activities and items presented. Variab
 le details had a different alternative each time\; hi/lo details presented
  the identical alternative three times and changed once. New details were 
 present in one occurrence only and thus had no alternatives. Children more
  often confused variable\, lo\, and new details across occurrences than hi
  details. The 4- to 5-year-old children were less accurate than 7- to 8-ye
 ar-old children at attributing details to the correct occurrence when spec
 ifically asked. Younger children rarely recalled new details spontaneously
 \, whereas 50% of the older children did and were well above chance at att
 ributing them to their correct occurrence. Results are discussed with refe
 rence to script theory\, fuzzy-trace theory and the source-monitoring fram
 ework.  \nThe talk will conclude with a short discussion of ongoing resear
 ch concerning children’s memory representations of repeated events. \n
LOCATION:PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
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