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Tehan, Gerald; Tolan, Georgina Anne – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
The word length effect has been a central feature of theorising about immediate memory. The notion that short-term memory traces rapidly decay unless refreshed by rehearsal is based primarily upon the finding that serial recall for short words is better than that for long words. The decay account of the word length effect has come under pressure…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Serial Ordering, Recall (Psychology), Vocabulary
Flora, June Annette – 1976
Kindergarten and first-grade children participated in a study of the role of reciprocal and inversion reversibility in language acquisition and cognitive development. Subjects completed cognitive tasks assessing conservation, seriation, and class inclusion, and language tasks assessing the active-passive transformation and the negative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Doctoral Dissertations
Hickson, R. H.; Driskill, J. C. – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Language Research, Learning Processes