ABSTRACT
Test events. The children were tested for recall of six multistep event sequences at delayed-recall Test 1, and nine multistep event sequences at delay ed-recall Test 2. To accommodate developmental differences in the amount of information that children are able to remember (see Bauer et al., 2000, for discussion), children were exposed to sequences that were either three or four steps in length: All of the children enrolled at 20 months were exposed to four-step test events; children enrolled at 16 months were exposed to either four-step or three-step test events; all of the children enrolled at 13 months were exposed to three-step test events. In both experiments in this research, half of the children enrolled at 16 months were tested on three-step sequences and half on four-step sequences. The test events were of three types: (a) sequences completely temporally constrained (enabling); (b) sequences completely lacking in temporal constraints and thus, arbitrarily ordered (arbitrary); and (c) sequences that were a mixture of enabling and arbitrary temporal relations (mixed). Examples of each event type can be found in Bauer, Kroupina, et al. (1998); a complete listing and description of the test events is available in Bauer et al. (2000).
