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A Developmental Study of Free Classification in Children
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Denney, Nancy Wadsworth – Child Development, 1972
Study concerned with the effects of procedural differences on the classification of geometrical stimuli. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Classification, Cluster Grouping
The Development of the Category-Recall Function under Three Retrieval Conditions
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Worden, Patricia E. – Child Development, 1974
An investigation of the category-recall relationship using first, third, and fifth graders as subjects. Recall was found to be a function of the number of categories in the sort, and there were no differences in recall among the three retrieval conditions. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cluster Grouping, Cues
The Development of the Distinction Between Perceiving and Memorizing
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Appel, Lynne F.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Preschool, first-grade, and fifth-grade children served as Ss in 2 experiments designed to test the developmental hypothesis that memorizing and perceiving are functionally undifferentiated for the young child, with deliberate memorization only gradually emerging as a separate and distinctive form of cognitive encounter with external data.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Processes
Free Recall of Categorized Items by Children at Three Grade Levels
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Kobasigawa, Akira; Middleton, Donald B. – Child Development, 1972
Study concerned with the question of why older children remember more in categorized free recall. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cluster Grouping, Elementary School Students
The Effects of Grouping on Short-Term Serial Recall of Digits by Children: Developmental Trends
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Harris, Gilbert J.; Burke, Deborah – Child Development, 1972
Study investigates the effects of spatial and temporal grouping on short-term serial recall by elementary school children of three different grade levels. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cluster Grouping, Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students
Modification of Young Children's Grouping Strategies: The Effects of Modeling, Verbalization, Incentives, and Age
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Zimmerman, Barry J. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cluster Grouping, Conceptual Schemes, Instruction
The Effects of Chronological Age, Trials, and List Characteristics upon Children's Category Clustering
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Wachs, Theodore D.; Gruen, Gerald E. – Child Development, 1971
Results indicated that availability of categories rather than frequency of words seemed most crucial in determining developmental changes in clustering efficiency. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Classification, Cluster Grouping
Developmental Shifts in Verbal Recall Between Mental Ages Two and Five
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Rossi, Sheila; Wittrock, M. C. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cluster Grouping, Developmental Psychology, Intellectual Development
Personal Organization in Children's Free Recall
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Lange, Garrett; Jackson, Patricia – Child Development, 1974
An exploration of age-related characteristics of children's personal categorizing schemes and relationships between free recall clustering (measured in reference to these schemes), and the number of items recalled. The 60 subjects were from five grade levels: 1, 4, 7, 10 and college. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cluster Grouping, College Students