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The Effects of Display Conditions upon Developmental Trends in Incidental Learning
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Henek, Tomacine; Miller, Leon K. – Child Development, 1976
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
Color Cues and Rehearsal in Short-Term Memory
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Sabo, Ruth A.; Hagen, John W. – Child Development, 1973
Study was designed to investigate the effects of color cues and of subject-employed strategies in the development of selective attention in a short-term memory task. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Color, Cues
A Developmental Study of Intelligent Retrieval.
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Keniston, Allen H.; Flavell, John H. – Child Development, 1979
Among elementary, junior high, and college students, intelligent retrieval methods for recalling 20 letters of the alphabet consisted either of mentally proceeding through the alphabet from the onset and writing down each previously written letter as encountered and recognized, or else first rote recalling some letters and then switching to the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
Selective Attention Deficits in Poor Readers? Dichotic Listening, Speeded Classification, and Auditory and Visual Central and Incidental Learning Tasks.
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Pelham, William E. – Child Development, 1979
Results as a whole did not support the hypothesis that poor readers show deficits in selective attention relative to age-matched normal readers. (RH)
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Perception, Classification, Cognitive Development
A Life-Span Study of the Interaction of Selectivity and Knowledge in Memory.
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Azmitia, Margarita; And Others – Child Development, 1987
To examine selective memorization in a scene context in which the expectancy of items was manipulated, preschool children, young adults, and older adults viewed a series of familiar scenes and were asked to remember one item from each. Results for children contrasted with the typical result of selective memorization research. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Expectation, Incidental Learning