Absolute judgment may be characterized as a special case of paired-associate learning in which the stimuli and responses are ordered, and responses are assigned to stimuli in serial order. (Authors)

The similarity match took longer than the identity match, and the difference in latency increased as the number of lines in the pattern increased. (Author)

Purpose of these four experiments was to elucidate the role of grouping in remembering words by using single-trial free recall. (Author/CB)

Study investigates the effects of spatial and temporal grouping on short-term serial recall by elementary school children of three different grade levels. (Authors)

Study is concerned with the commonalities between the development of skill and the development of problem solving. (Authors)

Nonsense syllables and two-arm semaphore" positions were the tasks in this study of experience free learning. (MB)

Examines the issue of object sorting in early infancy. Forty-eight infants at 6, 9, and 12 months were presented with eight sets of small, manipulable objects. At six months, selective manipulation was absent; at nine months, 94 percent of the infants sequentially touched similar objects and at 12 months 100 percent did so. (Author/DB)

Young adults' rehearsal was serially and categorically organized. Older adults' rehearsal was nonstrategic. Results show that direct strategy measures provide more information about processes underlying age differences in memory than do outcome measures alone. (Author)

Four forms of an achievement test were administered to fourth graders using two item orders and two response locations. While performance differences were noted between sexes in speed tests, handedness was not a significant factor; easy-to-difficult question order produced higher scores. (JD)

The results of three experiments provide evidence that the observed detrimental effects of acoustic similarity on serial recall may be a consequence of poorer memory for the order of consonant sounds as opposed to vowel sounds. (PMJ)

Analyzes videotapes of 42 children of 4-5 years and 24 children of 7-8 years playing doctors and nurses. Children were aware of the serial order of activities that occur in medical examinations. (RJC)

Recently, G. C. Van Orden, J. G. Holden, and M. T. Turvey (2003) proposed to abandon the conventional framework of cognitive psychology in favor of the framework of nonlinear dynamical systems theory. Van Orden et al. presented evidence that "purposive behavior originates in self-organized criticality" (p. 333). Here, the authors show that Van…