Intending to Forget: The Development of Cognitive Inhibition in Directed Forgetting.

Investigated suppression of activation and retrieval paths to information stored in long-term memory. Subjects were 94 children in grades 1, 3, and 5. Found that the ability to intentionally inhibit the maintenance and recall of irrelevant information improves over the elementary years, and children are less able than adults to withhold production of remembered to-be-forgotten words. (MOK)