Children's Preschool Script Reconstruction: Episodic Memory

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In the process of reading through chapter nine I was intrigued by the memory section, and in particular the episodic memory and its scripts for familiar events. In other words, the way we retain a list of steps in a process and the ability to put them in the order the way they happen. In the text book on page 329 and 330 they give an example of a child at age 3 talking about what happens at a restaurant. At 3 years old the child give only the highlights of the events: enter, sit, eat and leave. But at age 5 the child adds more details by including: ordering, dessert, paying and other details that a younger child would not remember. While looking into this topic I found a piece of research called, Children's preschool script reconstruction: