TY - JOUR A1 - John, Thomas A1 - Aslan, Alp T1 - Age differences in the persistence of part-list cuing impairment: The role of retrieval inhibition and strategy disruption JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology N2 - Providing a subset of previously studied information as a retrieval cue can impair memory for the remaining information. Previous work with adults has shown that such part-list cuing impairment (PLCI) can be transient or lasting, depending on study condition. Here, we investigated the persistence of PLCI in children. Three age groups (7- and 8-year-olds, 9- and 10-year-olds, and 12- to 14-year-olds) learned a list of items, either through a single study trial (1-study condition) or through two study-test cycles (2-study-test condition). Subsequently, two recall tests were administered, with part-list cues being provided in the first (critical) test but not in the second (final) test. Of primary interest was whether the detrimental effect of part-list cuing induced in the critical test would persist to the uncued final test. In 12- to 14-year-olds, we found an adult-like pattern of results, with lasting impairment in the 1-study condition but transient impairment in the 2-study-test condition. In contrast, in the two younger age groups, we found PLCI to be lasting in both study conditions, suggesting age differences in the persistence of PLCI. The results are discussed in light of a recently proposed two-mechanism account of PLCI that attributes lasting impairment to retrieval inhibition and transient impairment to strategy disruption. Following this account, the results suggest that whereas 12- to 14-year-olds’ PLCI was caused by (lasting) retrieval inhibition in the 1-study condition and by (transient) strategy disruption in the 2-study-test condition, 7- and 8-year-olds’ and 9- and 10-year-olds’ PLCI was caused by (lasting) retrieval inhibition in both study conditions. KW - Memory development KW - Associative encoding KW - Part-list cuing impairment KW - Retrieval inhibition KW - Strategy disruption KW - Repeated testing Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104746 VL - 191 SP - 104746 ER -