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Miller, Patricia H.; Weiss, Michael G. – Child Development, 1982
The purpose of this research was to examine developmental changes in the knowledge about what variables affect performance on the incidental learning task. Kindergarteners, second graders, fifth graders, and college students indicated on a rating scale how many animals a hypothetical person would remember under easy and difficult levels of each…
Descriptors: Adults, Attention, Children, Cognitive Development