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Pressley, Michael; Dennis-Rounds, Janice – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Twelve- and 18-year-olds learned a list of paired associates; experimental subjects were instructed in mnemonics, while controls simply learned the pairings. When subjects were presented a list of Latin nouns and their translations to learn, spontaneous transfer of the mnemonic strategy occurred only among 18-year-olds. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Mnemonics, Paired Associate Learning
Hall, Vernon C. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aural Learning, Intermode Differences, Learning Processes
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Baumeister, Alfred A.; Maisto, Albert A. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Presents a study of paired-associative learning involving a total of 80 preschool and second grade children. Four familiarization categories of pretraining were utilized; results are discussed in terms of the effects of pretraining conditions and age on paired-associative learning and their consistency with some developmental hypotheses and phase…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes
Goulet, L. R. – 1973
This study attempted to investigate the effects of school experience on performance on visual perception tests involving line figures and forms. The subjects were 120 first grade students selected from two public schools in the same community. The experiment involved an Experimental Treatments X Age X Time of Testing factorial design. All subjects…
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Age Grade Placement, Cognitive Processes