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Brown, Ann L.; Murphy, Martin D. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
The ability of preschool children to construct and reconstruct ordered sequences was examined in a series of four experiments. Subjects were 42 children aged 3 to 5 years. The conditions under which reconstruction of an arbitrary series of events is possible are described. (Author/GO)
Descriptors: Memory, Preschool Children, Recall (Psychology), Serial Learning

Murphy, Martin D.; And Others – Journal of Gerontology, 1981
College-age and older adults predicted their memory spans and indicated readiness to recall sets of drawings. Differences were obtained in recall readiness. In Experiment two the recall of a chunking and rehearsal trained group of older adults was better than that of a control group given standard instructions. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Memorization