Source Monitoring in Children
This term describes a child’s ability to remember where they learned a piece of information.
What is source monitoring?
Children are more likely than adults to make this type of error in source monitoring
What is source confusion?
Children are more susceptible to these because of weaker source monitoring.
What are false memories?
Children often confuse this when they mix up real memories with imagined events
What is reality monitoring
This is a common experimental method to study source monitoring in children involving stories and pictures.
What is the source monitoring paradigm?
This famous researcher conducted studies on false memories in children using suggestive questioning.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
The part of the brain critical for source monitoring, which matures throughout childhood.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This age group typically shows the biggest improvement in source monitoring skills.
What is middle childhood (around 7-12 years)?
This type of questioning can increase false memories in children by confusing their source monitoring
What is leading or suggestive questioning?
Children’s source monitoring abilities improve with age due to development of this cognitive function.
What is executive functioning?
Children with this condition may show impaired source monitoring abilities.
What is ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)?
This memory phenomenon can result when children confuse what they imagined with what really happened.
What is imagination inflation?
This effect causes children to incorrectly attribute a memory to a wrong source, often leading to false memories.
What is source misattribution?
This process helps children decide if a memory is based on something they actually experienced or something they were told.
What is reality monitoring?
This term describes the ability to monitor not only the source but also the quality of memories, which improves with age.
What is metamemory?