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Developmental Improvements and Persisting Difficulties in Children's Metacognitive Monitoring and Control Skills: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Perspectives
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Bayard, Natalie S.; Loon, Mariëtte H.; Steiner, Martina; Roebers, Claudia M. – Child Development, 2021
This study investigated age-dependent improvements of monitoring and control in 7/8- and 9/10-year-old children. We addressed prospective (judgments of learning and restudy selections) and retrospective metacognitive skills (confidence judgments and withdrawal of answers). Children (N = 305) completed a paired-associate learning task twice, with a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Age Groups, Metacognition
The Development of Mental Imagery Retrieval.
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Pressley, Michael; Levin, Joel R. – Child Development, 1980
Instructions were given to first and sixth graders to use an imagery-retrieval strategy in recalling 18 paired associates. (SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Imagery, Memorization
Presentation Rate Effects on Paired Associate Learning by Attention Deficit Disordered Children.
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Conte, Richard; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Contrasts a fixed-rate presentation list with one in which half the items in a single list were presented at a fast rate and half at a slow rate during paired associative learning with 24 children (aged 8 to 22 years) who were diagnosed with having an attention deficit disorder. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Patterns, Children
Developmental Differences in the Use of Conceptual Features in Retrieving Episodic Information from Memory.
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Ackerman, Brian P. – Child Development, 1986
Two experiments examine use of defining, characteristic, category, and identical semantic features of word concept information in cued recall. College adults and 7- to 11-year-old children were shown word triplets in which context words were related or unrelated to final target word. Results suggest meaning features differ in providing medium for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Concept Formation