Developmental Reversals in False Memory: Development Is Complementary, Not Compensatory

• Published in: Developmental psychology Vol. 54; no. 9; pp. 1773 - 1784
• Main Authors: Brainerd, C. J, Reyna, V. F, Holliday, R. E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychological Association 01.09.2018
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adolescent; Adolescents; Adults; Age Differences; Child; Children; Cognitive Development; Cognitive Tests; Familiarity; Foreign Countries; Humans; Memory; Models, Psychological; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Psychological Tests; Psychology, Adolescent; Psychology, Child; United Kingdom

We report the 1st example of a true complementarity effect in memory development--a situation in which memory for the "same event" simultaneously becomes more and less accurate between early childhood and adulthood. We investigated this paradoxical effect because fuzzy-trace theory predict...