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Ackerman, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1988
Five experiments examined the cued recall of the last target words of primarily four-word (Bus-Airplane-Car-Train) category stimuli by children and adults. Focused on problems of gaining access to episodic search sets in recall. Results suggested that access to search set is more problematic for children than for adults. (RWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, College Students

Ackerman, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Five experiments examined the developmental relation between attention to target and context information and target memory among second and fifth graders and college adults. Results show that when the context is meaningfully related to target information, adults are less selective than children and are more likely to attend to context information.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention Span, Cognitive Processes