In two experiments, differences were investigated between 21 gifted youths and comparison groups on paired-associate tasks involving meaningful and nonmeaningful words, reported use of spontaneously produced learning strategies, and degree to which learning strategies facilitated recall. Gifted youths outperformed age peers in recall and strategy…

Extends the investigation of memory assessment to a situation in which memory performance on paired associate tasks varied with the use of different memory strategies. Subjects were 72 first, third, and fifth graders. (Author/MP)

Presents a study of imagery induction during paired associate learning by preschool children. Studies the effect of experimenter-generated interactions between the stimulus pairs to be learned, self-generated interactions, and a combination of the two, on imagery induction. (BD/BR)

The focus of the study was on the paired-associate performance of retarded subjects of different levels of mental age under various instructional conditions. (WY)

The ability of nursery school and first-grade children to learn and transfer a mediational strategy utilizing prepositional relationships between paired-associate objects was investigated under several strategy training conditions. (Author/JMB)

Reported were two studies designed to clarify the effects of verbal elaboration on children's learning. Study I was undertaken to replicate, with controlled training times, an earlier investigation of the effects of three types of extended verbal elaboration (sentences, semantic paragraphs, and syntactic paragraphs). Trials to criterion analyses…

The hypothesis that thematic prompts facilitate learning by furnishing mediators was investigated in three experiments, two of which produced enhanced learning. (CK)

Compared six experimental conditions to determine whether specific formats of interrogatives would be instrumental in inducing the generation of effective verbal mediators for 30 nonretarded and 60 educable mentally retarded children. (Author/JMB)

The purpose of this study was to test associative skills by means of a paired-associate task with varied mediational instructions. Subjects were 84 first grade ghetto children, 25% of whom were from Spanish-speaking homes; virtually all the other subjects were black. The 3 x 2 x 4 factorial design included: three mediation sets (imagery,…

To test the comparative efficacy of a visual imagery associative learning strategy in younger and older children, second and sixth grade children were presented a list of paired associates (concrete nouns) either at a faster or slower rate, under either an instruction to generate an interactive image for the pairs or a no strategy, control…

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if the mentally retarded child is capable of the long-term retention of mediational links that he has formulated previously on a paired-associate task. (Author)

Study designed to assess the effectiveness of different types of visual mnemonics on the memory for nouns in a paired-associate learning paradigm. (Authors)