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Peer reviewedAckerman, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Analyzes results of four experiments using noun category and thematic stimuli and suggests that the associative structures of memory help constrain and mediate retrieval search for stimulus information. Also, that these structures as well as representations of the stimulus events in memory seem to differ for thematic and category events, and for…
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, Context Clues, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedAckerman, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Adjective noun-noun word triplets were presented in an acquisition encoding context to second and fourth graders and college students to determine if they were compatible with trace information in memory and change with age. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Age Differences, College Students, Context Clues
Peer reviewedDavidson, Rosalind G.; And Others – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1986
Assesses the performance of bilingual children on two language tasks in both the children's languages in order to determine whether the profile of skills in the first language was replicated in the second language. (HOD)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Definitions
