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The acquisition of the cultural life script: children have a less normative and less sequential concept of the life course than adults.
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European Journal of Developmental Psychology . Jan2021, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p96-111. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Autobiographical remembering develops in childhood. A late-developing cognitive tool is the cultural life script. The present study aimed at exploring the beginnings of its acquisition and at replicating its acquisition in early adolescence in a Southern-European culture. Study 1 established the Portuguese normative adult cultural life script, against which the cultural life scripts provided by 6- to 16-year-olds could be compared in Study 2. The acquisition of the cultural life script in early to mid-adolescence was confirmed with multiple indicators. In 6- to 8-year olds, life script knowledge was only rudimentary. However, children still agreed highly on a set of mostly non-normative life events which they named as typical for a normal life that are not part of the adult life script. We conclude that children's non-normative concept of life is less helpful for remembering, narrating, and planning a life than is the adult cultural life script with normative events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *INTELLECTUAL life
*SCRIPTS
*ADULTS
*AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL memory
*CONCEPTS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17405629
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Developmental Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147904810
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2020.1768066