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Peer reviewedParis, 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
Download full textCalvert, Sandra L.; And Others – 1993
A study was conducted to determine whether children think about the verbal messages embedded in songs, or merely sing the words without thinking about them. A total of 48 preschool girls and boys viewed a televised vignette of the song "Frere Jacques" under varying conditions of language comprehensibility, rehearsal, and repetition. The visual…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Learning Activities, Memorization
Reese, Hayne W.; And Others – 1989
A cross-sectional study that investigated memory variables in 100 subjects in 4 age ranges (17-22, 40-50, 60-70, and 75-99) found that the 60-70 year olds were more impaired with respect to retrieval than storage and the major problem with memory among the 75-99 year olds was retrieval from short- or long-term memory. Because the study was…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cross Sectional Studies, Encoding (Psychology)
Hultsch, David Fries – 1968
This study focused on adult age differences in the organizational processes of memory as measured by performance (number of words recalled) and subject imposed organization (SO) of information. Thirty males in each of three age groups (16-19, 30-39, 45-54) underwent 16 inspection trials and 16 recall trails on an experimental list of 22 unrelated…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Learning, Adults, Age Differences
