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Peer reviewedHasher, Lynn; Zacks, Rose T. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1979
Research on memory performance in children, the elderly, and individuals under stress is integrated with research on memory performance in college students. Assumptions include: (1) variation in attentional capacity within and between individuals, and (2) encoding operations vary in attentional requirements. Most of the data support the framework.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes
Peer reviewedCorballis, Michael C. – Psychological Review, 1979
Ratcliff's theory of memory retrieval which posits parallel processing and Sternberg's serial processing explanation of memory scanning are reviewed and contrasted. Discrepancy between the two theories may arise because they focus on different aspects of the data. If scanning without comparisons takes place, the two views may be reconciled.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cues, Learning Processes
