Ruggeri,A.
Olsson,H.
Katsikopoulos,K.V.

We used a cue-generation and a cue-selection paradigm to investigate the cues children (9- to 12-year-olds) and young adults (17-year-olds) generate and select for a range of inferences from memory.We found that children generatedmorecues than young adults, who,whenaskedwhythey did not generatesomeparticular cues, responded that they did not consider them relevant for the task at hand. On average, the cues generated by children were more perceptual but as informative as the cues generated by young adults. When asked to select the most informative of two cues, both children and young adults tended to choose a hidden (i.e., not perceptual) cue. Our results suggest a developmental change in the cuebox (i.e., the set of cues used to make inferences from memory): New cues are added to the cuebox as more cues are learned, and some old, perceptual cues, although informative, are replaced with hidden cues, which, by both children and young adults, are generally assumed to be more informative than perceptual cues.

Ruggeri, A., Olsson, H., & Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2015). Opening the cuebox: The information children and young adults generate and rely on when making inferences from memory. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33, 355-374. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12100 (Full text)

Publication year	2015
Document type:	Article
Publication status:	Published
External URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12100 View
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Keywords:	cue generationinferencesinformation search