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Verbal Knowledge, Working Memory, and Processing Speed as Predictors of Verbal Learning in Older Adults
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Rast, Philippe – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The present study aimed at modeling individual differences in a verbal learning task by means of a latent structured growth curve approach based on an exponential function that yielded 3 parameters: initial recall, learning rate, and asymptotic performance. Three cognitive variables--speed of information processing, verbal knowledge, working…
Descriptors: Verbal Learning, Predictor Variables, Individual Differences, Short Term Memory
Memory Organization During Children's Repeated Recall
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Paris, Scott G. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Presents a study of age differences in memory organization during repeated recall tasks. Second and sixth grade children served as subjects. (BD)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
Sociocultural Influences on the Development of Verbal Mediation: Private Speech and Phonological Recoding in Saudi Arabian and British Samples
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Al-Namlah, Abdulrahman S.; Fernyhough, Charles; Meins, Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Cross-national stability in private speech (PS) and short-term memory was investigated in Saudi Arabian (n=63) and British (n=58) 4- to 8-year-olds. Assumed differences in child-adult interaction between the 2 nationality groups led to predictions of Gender ? Nationality interactions in the development of verbal mediation. British boys used more…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Gender Differences, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries