Journal article
Does information about what things are influence children's memory for where things are?
Developmental psychology, Vol.39(6), pp.939-948
11/2003
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.39.6.939
PMID: 14584976
Abstract
Two experiments examined how information about what objects are influences memory for where objects are located. Seven-, 9-, and 11-year-old children and adults learned the locations of 20 objects marked by dots on the floor of a box. The objects belonged to 4 categories. In one condition, objects belonging to the same category were located in the same quadrant of the box. In another condition, objects and locations were randomly paired. After learning, participants attempted to replace the objects without the aid of the dots. Children and adults placed the objects in the same quadrant closer together when they were related than when they were unrelated, indicating that object information led to systematic biases in location memory.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Does information about what things are influence children's memory for where things are?
- Creators
- Alycia M Hund - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. amhund@ilstu.eduJodie M Plumert
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Developmental psychology, Vol.39(6), pp.939-948
- DOI
- 10.1037/0012-1649.39.6.939
- PMID
- 14584976
- NLM abbreviation
- Dev Psychol
- ISSN
- 0012-1649
- eISSN
- 1939-0599
- Grant note
- R03-HD36761-01 / NICHD NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2003
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984213398902771
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