ABSTRACT
The adult memory literature currently provides two alternative conceptualizations of the memory system: the multistore and the levels of processing frameworks. Both of these conceptualizations represent broad overviews of the human memory system that can serve to organize the research literature. Further, although these frameworks differ in orientation and in the assumptions which are made about the memory system, they are similar in many respects. From a developmental perspective, one obvious 'similarity' is that neither class of models is particularly developmental in orientation. In both frameworks, the memory system is viewed as static and unchanging, rather than as the evolving, growing system which a developmental point of view requires. The chapter aims to compare and contrast these two broad approaches to memory in order to determine the extent to which each provides a useful context for a thorough understanding of memory development in children.
