Reminiscence and hypermnesia in children’s eyewitness memory

David J. La Rooy; Margaret-Ellen Pipe; Janice E. Murray

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2004.11.002

Reminiscence and hypermnesia in children’s eyewitness memory

David J. La Rooy, Margaret-Ellen Pipe, Janice E. Murray

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Abstract

Three experiments examined reminiscence and hypermnesia in 5- and 6-year-olds’ memory for an event across repeated interviews that occurred either immediately afterward (Experiment 1) or after a 6-month delay (Experiments 2 and 3). Reminiscence (recall of new information) was reliably obtained in all of the experiments, although the numbers of new items recalled were fewer after a delay than when the interviews occurred immediately afterward. Hypermnesia (increasing total recall over repeated recall attempts) was obtained only in Experiment 1 when interviews occurred immediately and 24 h after the event.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	235-254
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume	90
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2004.11.002
Publication status	Published - Mar 2005

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