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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
Peer reviewedSaltz, Eli; Dunin-Markiewicz, Aleksandra – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedTaub, Harvey A. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1977
Three experiments were performed with young and aged female volunteers (mean ages approximately 25 and 70 years respectively) to evaluate coding ability with ordered and free recall tasks. (BD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Learning Processes, Letters (Alphabet), Mediation Theory
Peer reviewedRichman, Charles L.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Meaningfulness values, assessed via the production method, were obtained on 40 trigrams for 120 children, 40 each in second and sixth grade. These norms were subsequently used in a free-recall learning study. (MS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education
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
Ross, Edith – 1967
Sixty young men between 18 and 26 years of age and 60 within the 65-75 year age range, matched for verbal ability and socioeconomic status, were given two paired associate learning tasks differing in level of difficulty under neutral, supportive, and challenging instructions. Older persons revealed a greater performance decrement on the more…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Doctoral Dissertations, Motivation Techniques
