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Liu, Catrina; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: This study investigated the bidirectional relations among paired associate learning (PAL), language-specific skills and Chinese word reading in kindergarten children from second year (K2) to third year (K3). We tested 204 children on four mapping conditions of PAL (i.e., visual-verbal, verbal-verbal, visual-visual, and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Paired Associate Learning
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Liu, Catrina; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study investigated the construct of paired associate learning (PAL) and its associations with Chinese word writing in kindergarten children. A total of 188 Chinese children (95 boys, mean age = 5.65 years; SD = 0.34) from [Xi'an], Mainland China in the third year of kindergarten participated in this study. Children were assessed on measures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Paired Associate Learning, Kindergarten, Executive Function
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Sheppard, Kelly W.; Cheatham, Carol L. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2017
The Electric Maze Task (EMT) is a novel planning task designed to allow flexible testing of planning abilities across a broad age range and to incorporate manipulations to test underlying planning abilities, such as working-memory and inhibitory control skills. The EMT was tested in a group of 63 typically developing 7- to 12-year-olds.…
Descriptors: Planning, Children, Preadolescents, Short Term Memory
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Huttenlocher, Janellen; Hedges, Larry V.; Lourenco, Stella F.; Crawford, L. Elizabeth; Corrigan, Bryce – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
In this article, the authors present and test a formal model that holds that people use information about category boundaries in estimating inexactly represented stimuli. Boundaries restrict stimuli that are category members to fall within a particular range. This model posits that people increase the average accuracy of stimulus estimates by…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Classification, Least Squares Statistics, Psychometrics