Two experiments examined children's use of two categories of associative strategies with both accessible (related) and inaccessible word pairs and with verbal and imaginal forms of associative strategy use. Found that whether subjects were asked to generate sentences or describe images, most of their responses were either Elaboration or Other…

Three experiments assessing the effects of nonbizarre versus bizarre pictorial elaboration on the paired-associate retention of noun pairs were conducted with kindergarten and second-grade children. Both pictorial elaborations were found to facilitate performance relative to a standard presentation condition and forgetting of pairs was equivalent.…

Dual task procedures (finger tapping and associative memory) were used to examine developmental differences in the amount of mental effort required to deploy rehearsal and elaboration. Sixth-grade and college students participated. Some evidence for a developmental difference in mental effort was found. (TJH)