Abstract
A major focus of developmental researchers has concerned the isolation of the mechanisms behind age-related improvements in cognition. Working memory capacity, metacognitive abilities, strategies, and knowledge base have all been touted as important causative agents in children’s thinking (e.g., Bjorklund, 1990; Schneider & Pressley, 1989). Meanwhile, although inhibition processes enjoyed a role in early theories of cognition and development (Luria, 1961; Underwood, 1957), inhibition has been neglected, in part, because it has not appeared to be compatible with the computer metaphor of cognition (Bjork, 1989; Dempster, this volume). Currently, the developmental significance of inhibitory processing is garnering renewed support from such diverse areas as memory development (Bjorklund & Harnishfeger, 1990), object permanence in infancy (Diamond, 1988), and discourse processing in the aged (Hasher & Zacks, 1989). It is time to reexamine inhibition as a central mechanism in accounts of cognitive development.
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