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Abstract
The
purpose of this study was to determine whether young children's spontaneous
utterances of mental terms would be congruent with the accuracy of their
memory behaviors, and whether the use of an incidental memory task would
yield similar developmental patterns as other methodologies. It was hypothesized
that if children realize that internal mental activities influence behavioral
actions, then the children's behavioral actions (recall) would be congruent
with their utterances. A total of 27 three- and five-year-old children spontaneously
used cognitive verbs such as knowing, forgetting, remembering,
thinking, guessing, and betting during a recall task.
The results revealed that 39% of the 3-year-old children's behavioral responses
and 67% of the 5-year-old children were congruent with their spontaneous
utterances. These and other findings were consistent with studies that utilized
different methodologies.
Cherney,
I.
D. (2002).
Young children's spontaneous utterances of mental terms and the
accuracy of their memory behaviors: A different methodological approach.
Infant and Child Development, 1-17.
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