Although there have not been many studies on children’s memory versus time, there have been studies based around children’s memory in general. In one such study, a researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia found that children’s increased speed of recall accompanies the improvement in short-term memory (Cowman, 2005). This is important because the memory serves as an index for intelligence and mental maturation. The memory span in turn increases because of the growth in the speed of mental processing. This means that as we age, our short-term memory increases.
As part of our experiment, we want to discover when children’s memory begins to improve or if there is any significant improvement at all. In attempt to ascertain this, we will be testing the memory of two-year-old and five-year-old children and comparing their results based on the length of time between seeing an object and recalling the object. Hopefully, this will be able to tell us if children’s short-term memory is dissimilar at different ages. In my own prediction, I feel that