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Peer reviewedBrainerd, C. J.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1990
Cognitive triage is the nonmonotonic relationship between the order in which children read words out of long-term memory and the strength of the memory of the words read. Two experiments with 7 and 12 year olds compared the fuzzy-trace theory with an effortful processing explanation. Findings consistently favored the fuzzy-trace theory's…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Long Term Memory, Predictor Variables
