Conceptual implicit memory: A developmental study
Category
Journal Article
Authors
Perruchet, P., Frazier, N., Lautrey, J.
Year
1995
Title
Conceptual implicit memory: A developmental study
Journal / book / conference
Psychological Research
Abstract
The widely accepted standpoint that implicit memory emerges earlier in development than explicit memory, and is more stable from childhood to adult age, is based on experimental data essentially collected in perceptual tasks. The present study was aimed at investigating whether these findings still hold when a more conceptual task is used. We compared the performance of children at two age levels (2nd and 4th grades) on a category-exemplar generation task. Results showed that performances of the two groups were comparable when the target items were typical of their categories, as in Experiment 2, and for a subset of the items in Experiment 1. However, the older children outperformed the younger children in Experiment 1 when the items selected were atypical of their categories. Interpretations of these findings are discussed.
Issue
3-4
Volume
57
Pages
220-228