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Publication Date: 2017
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Hearing "Quack" and Remembering a Duck: Evidence for Fluency Attribution in Young Children
Geurten, Marie; Lloyd, Marianne; Willems, Sylvie
Child Development, v88 n2 p514-522 Mar-Apr 2017
Previous research has suggested that fluency does not influence memory decisions until ages 7-8. In two experiments (n = 96 and n = 64, respectively), children, aged 4, 6, and 8 years (Experiments 1 and 2), and adults (Experiment 2) studied a list of pictures. Participants completed a recognition test during which each study item was preceded by a sound providing either a highly predictive or mildly predictive context in order to make some test items more conceptually fluent. Overall, highly predictive items were recognized at a higher rate than mildly predictive items demonstrating an earlier development of the fluency heuristic than previously observed. The study provides insight into how children develop metacognitive expectations and when they start to use them to guide their memory responses.
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Young Children, Children, Memory, Decision Making, Pictorial Stimuli, Adults, Recognition (Psychology), Tests, Acoustics, Prediction, Item Analysis, Test Items, Child Development, Metacognition, Expectation, Developmental Stages
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