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Peer reviewedAckerman, Brian P.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1990
When 54 second graders, 54 fifth graders, and 54 college students listened to stories that varied in extent of discontinuity, even the second graders showed an ability to detect discontinuity. Sensitivity varied with extent and location of discontinuity, and with variations in instructions and titles of stories. Verbal reports may underestimate…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 5
Peer reviewedAckerman, Brian P. – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Developmental differences in the relative salience of features in concept representations in semantic memory and their contributions to differences in cued recall were examined in two experiments. Subjects were second graders, fifth graders, and college students. Results showed that recall varied with feature salience, with salience greatest for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Definitions, Elementary Education
