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Kvavilashvili, Lia; Fisher, Laura – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
The present research examined self-reported rehearsal processes in naturalistic time-based prospective memory tasks (Study 1 and 2) and compared them with the processes in event-based tasks (Study 3). Participants had to remember to phone the experimenter either at a prearranged time (a time-based task) or after receiving a certain text message…
Descriptors: Motivation, Cues, Memorization, Memory
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Justice, Laura M.; Pence, Khara; Bowles, Ryan B.; Wiggins, Alice – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2006
This study tested four complementary hypotheses to characterize intrinsic and extrinsic influences on the order with which preschool children learn the names of individual alphabet letters. The hypotheses included: (a) "own-name advantage," which states that children learn those letters earlier which occur in their own names, (b) the…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Alphabets, Influences, Preschool Children