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Cycowicz, Yael M.; And Others – 1994
Pictures are often used by cognitive psychologists to investigate the development of cognitive functions. Different attributes of the picture, such as object or picture familiarity, word frequency, and age of acquisition, are known to correlate with naming latency and to affect memory, particularly retrieval processes. But without the use of…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Henning, Grant – 1991
Criticisms of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) have included speculation that the listening test places too much burden on short-term memory as compared with comprehension, that a knowledge of reading is required to respond successfully, and that many items appear to require mere recall and matching rather than higher-order…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Educational Assessment