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Mahoney, Gerald J. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
Children's ability to produce and use natural language mediators on a paired-associate recall task requiring self-generated elaboration was analyzed. Elaborations were recorded and classified according to a semantic-syntactic scheme. Comparisons between grades were made to determine the effectiveness of elaboration categories in facilitating…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Learning Processes