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Kee, Daniel W.; White, Bradley R. – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Memory, Nouns, Paired Associate Learning
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Salatas, Harriet; Flavell, John H. – Child Development, 1976
The present study was designed to explore what subjects can and will do spontaneously in memory retrieval situations. Subjects were kindergarten, third grade and college students. (SB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Memory
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Hagen, John W.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Results confirm an earlier finding that experimentally induced rehearsal facilitates recall. (Authors/CS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Memory, Performance Factors, Primary Education
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Alegria, Jesus; Pignot, Elisabeth – Child Development, 1979
Experiment 1 showed that four-year-old children memorized a list of non-rhyming items better than a list of rhyming ones. In Experiment 2, bilingual children learned a list of items which had rhyming names in one language and non-rhyming names in the other. Results showed better performance on the non-rhyming items. (JMB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Mediation Theory
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Pressley, Michael – Child Development, 1982
The research literature on children's production of elaborations in associative learning tasks is reviewed, especially with respect to the questions of when children can produce elaborations under instruction, when they transfer elaborative strategy usage from one situation to another, and when they produce elaborative strategies spontaneously.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development