This study investigated developmental changes in the role of causality in perceiving and remembering events. Subjects were 99 children in kindergarden, third and sixth grades. (MS)

Examined the effect of monetary incentives on word list memory. Subjects were 72 children from grades 4, 6, and 8. (BD)

Third grade children classified as good or poor readers were exposed to a sequential memory task under familiar and novel conditions. Recall scores were higher for good than for poor readers for novel but not familiar material. Results confirm the position that poor readers hav a deficit in applying verbal labels to certain physical stimuli. (ST)

Examined whether a copy theory of memory that views memory as essentially a library of stored experiences, or a generative memory model that depends on constructive and integrative processes is more descriptive of the memory representation of children and adults. (Author/SDH)

Investigates developmental differences in awareness of category relations in sets of items presented for recall. Subjects were kindergarten, third, and sixth grade children. (CM)

In order to determine whether mistakes committed by younger children are the result of retention mistakes rather than faulty perceptual encoding, twenty children (6, 8, 10, and 12 years old) reconstructed two visual patterns from immediate memory, while twenty other children (5 and 6 years old) reconstructed the identical patterns by direct…

Tested the hypotheses that errors of ommission would occur more frequently than errors of commission and errors would be related to stimulus complexity. A total of 48 children from grades 1 and 3 were given a memory task (involving visual and haptic memory) for recognition of random polygons. (MS)

The Wickens release from proactive interference (RIP) short-term memory technique was used to study encoding with functional categories by 7-, 10-, and 19-year-old male and female subjects. (CM)