AGE-DIFFERENCES IN ENCODING AND RETRIEVING DETAILS OF A PEDIATRIC EXAMINATION

Baker-Ward, Gordon, Ornstein, Larus, and Clubb (1993) showed that reca ll improves over ages 3-7 for events experienced during a physical exa mination. Pie used a joint multinomial model to ask whether the improv ement was due to encoding, to retrieval, or to likelihood to report. T he model fit the Baker-Ward et al. data well and showed that (1) retri eval and reporting cannot be distinguished and (2) the observed effect s were due primarily to age-related improvement in retrieval reporting rather than in encoding.