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Download full textRice, G. Elizabeth; Meyer, Bonnie J. F. – 1983
A study was conducted to determine the effects of age, verbal ability, education, reading habits, and recall strategies on prose recall among adults. Subjects were 422 adults in three age groups--young (18-28 years), middle (40-54), and older (62-80). They were asked to read and recall in writing two 388-word prose passages and to answer questions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Age, Age Differences
Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Rice, G. Elizabeth – 1983
Discourse can be organized in many different ways, two of these being comparison and a collection of descriptions. These two discourse types correspond to schemata that vary in their organizational components, and these differences can be expected to produce differences in the processing of text. For example, research has shown that for young…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Writing
