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Guerard, Katherine; Tremblay, Sebastien – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
The authors revisited evidence in favor of modularity and of functional equivalence between the processing of verbal and spatial information in short-term memory. This was done by investigating the patterns of intrusions, omissions, transpositions, and fill-ins in verbal and spatial serial recall and order reconstruction tasks under control,…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Spatial Ability, Verbal Stimuli
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Pressley, Michael; Bryant, Susan L. – Child Development, 1982
In order to examine the effects of interrogative strategies in promoting children's associative learning, children five and six years of age, as well as sixth-grade children, were first presented with a variety of picture-paired associates and then tested for the ability to memorize them. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Children, Foreign Countries
Snart, Fern; Mulcahy, Robert – 1979
Age differences in recognition and recall of common nouns were studied using three groups of fifty students, with mean ages of 6.7, 11.4, and 16.9. Subjects were randomly placed in either an incidental or intentional learning condition. All subjects were questioned about the physical, phonemic, and semantic aspects of the same words, in the same…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education