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Hagen, John William; Zukier, Henry – 1977
This study investigated the effects of distractors on children's task-relevant (central) and task-irrelevant (incidental) recall on a short term visual memory task involving pictures of familiar animals and household articles. The effect of mode of distractor (auditory or visual) and the effect of developmental level were also studied. Subjects…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Auditory Stimuli, Elementary School Students
Truman, Diane L. – 1981
As part of a series of studies dealing with varieties of interference in sentence learning as assessed by multiple choice tests, a study was undertaken to explore the effects of pictures on inferentially produced interference in recognition memory for sentence information. The subjects were 104 first grade students and 104 fourth, fifth, and sixth…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns