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Kolers, Paul A.; Roediger, Henry L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Presents a "procedural view" of the learning mind, arguing against previous theories citing physical properties as its basis. A more process-oriented view of information processing is offered, which describes "mind" in terms of skill in manipulating symbols, and the notion of skills is shown to provide a useful framework for accounting for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Encoding (Psychology), Language Acquisition, Language Research
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Children at three age levels were administered Schutz and Keislar's word-span task using nouns, verbs and functors as stimuli. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Function Words, Language Acquisition
Mandel, Rhonda G.; Johnson, Nancy S. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Examines the role of organization in adults' processing of stories. Canonical stories were better recalled than noncanonical stories by all three age groups (young, middle-aged, and old adults), and a variety of measures indicated that older adults' recall was both quantitatively and qualitatively similar to that of young adults. (SL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
