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Peer reviewedHagen, John W.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
A short-term memory task was used to explore the effects of verbal labeling and rehearsal on serial-position recall in mildly retarded 9-to 11-year-old children. Results support the view that verbal skills affect recall in mildly retarded children similarly to normal children. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Handicapped Children, Labeling (of Persons), Memory
Download full textKingsley, Phillip R.; Hagen, John W. – 1968
Eighty nursery school children were randomly divided into four groups of 20 and given a serial short-term memory task in which difficult-to-label stimuli were used. Three experimental groups were provided with labels for the stimuli. Of these, one group overtly pronounced the labels and rehearsed them during the task, one group merely pronounced…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Learning, Learning Processes, Memory
