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Megan Howard
University of Central Florida
Subject Listing - Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Fiore
Saturday, Poster Session 6, Presentation Table 7, Health & Fitness Center
UNDERSTANDING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY OF CHILDREN THROUGH SELF-REPORT
The purpose of this thesis is to explore autobiographical memory in children, specifically; the personal events involved in memory and memory failures and to what extent children realize what they have forgotten. Since previous research in this domain has focused mainly on adult participants or children's ability to recall past events, few have ventured to investigate what underlies the process of forgetting for everyday events, especially in children. This project will explore data collected from children aged 7-10 regarding a particular self-reported memory lapse and how this act of recollection pertains to the self and the invention of the self. The thesis deals with a multifaceted view of autobiographical memory by combining components from cognitive science and developmental psychology to understand more thoroughly the developmental changes in cognitive capabilities for memory. Results will be evaluated via data analysis and coding of types of memory lapses in children. Participants will be asked to describe a memory lapse by remembering a particular time they forgot something or had forgotten to do something, and then participants will be asked to speculate on why they thought the memory lapse occurred. Data will be coded as either prospective or retrospective memory, as well as coded for type of context, distraction (external/internal), and state of being (physiological, emotional, motivational). The results of this project will be discussed in the context of developing a better understanding of, and suggest future avenues for, research in memory and memory failures in children.
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Fiore, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Research Scientist, Institute of Simulation and Training, Team Performance Laboratory, Philosophy, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL