Dividing Attention Lowers Children's but Increases Adults' False Memories

Autor/inn/en	Otgaar, Henry; Peters, Maarten; Howe, Mark L.
Titel	Dividing Attention Lowers Children's but Increases Adults' False Memories
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38 (2012) 1, S.204-210 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0025160
Schlagwörter	Classroom Techniques; Word Lists; Attention Control; Memory; Attention Deficit Disorders; Models; Children; Adults; Task Analysis; Recall (Psychology); Accuracy; Cognitive Processes; Higher Education; Experimental Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Klassenführung; Wortliste; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Gedächtnis; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHS; Aufmerksamkeits-Defizit-Hyperaktivitäts-Störung; Aufmerksamkeitsstörung; Analogiemodell; Child; Kind; Kinder; Aufgabenanalyse; Abberufung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Experimentelle Psychologie
Abstract	The present study examined the impact of divided attention on children's and adults' neutral and negative true and false memories in a standard Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm. Children (7- and 11-year-olds; n = 126) and adults (n = 52) received 5 neutral and 5 negative Deese/Roediger-McDermott word lists; half of each group also received a divided attention task. The results showed that divided attention affected children's and adults' false memory levels differently but did not alter true memory differently. Our results revealed a developmental shift in that divided attention lowered children's false memory rates but increased adults' false memory rates, regardless of the nature of the material (i.e., neutral or negative). Our study indicates that manipulations that target conscious processing (e.g., divided attention) result in marked qualitative and quantitative differences between children's and adults' false memories but not true memories. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10