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Peer reviewedPressley, Michael; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Children 6- to ll-years-old heard concrete sentences which they were asked to learn. Half the children received imagery instruction. Greater short-term memory and verbal competence predicted better sentence learning in the imagery condition, but not in the control condition. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Imagery, Learning Strategies
Berry, Jane; And Others – 1983
Self-efficacy, or a person's perception of his/her own mastery of a skill, affects subsequent task performance and predictions of future performance. To examine older adults' metamemorial knowledge with respect to predicting their performance on everyday and laboratory memory tasks, 28 adults (22 females, 6 males), aged 58 to 80 years, completed a…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Emotional Response, Laboratory Experiments, Memory
