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Halford, Graeme S.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1985
Concludes that strategies are not responsible for memory span development in children 7 through 13 years old. Running and fixed memory span tasks and a running probe task were administered to 38 children. The probe task showed age differences as great as with the fixed span task. Span was reduced by approximately half an item over all ages.…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries