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Geis, Mary Fulcher – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Second and sixth grade children's relative sensitivity to acoustic, semantic, and physical dimensions was inferred from the amount of release from proactive interference obtained for shifts along each dimension. (ED)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Memory
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Enkvist, Tommy; Newell, Ben; Juslin, Peter; Olsson, Henrik – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Previous studies have suggested better learning when people actively intervene rather than when they passively observe the stimuli in a judgment task. In 4 experiments, the authors investigated the hypothesis that this improvement is associated with a shift from exemplar memory to cue abstraction. In a multiple-cue judgment task with continuous…
Descriptors: Intervention, Cues, Learning Processes, Memory
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Kail, Robert V., Jr.; Schroll, John T. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Investigates the development of evaluative and taxonomic encoding in 7-, to 8-, and 11-year-old children's memories, and related experimental findings to recent work on the development of encoding in memory. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students
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Leahy, Wayne; Sweller, John – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2005
Interactions among the imagination, expertise reversal, and element interactivity effects were investigated in 2 experiments. In Experiment 1, less knowledgeable primary school students learning to use a bus timetable produced better performance under study than imagination conditions, but an increase in their experience reversed the result,…
Descriptors: Interaction, Imagination, Experimental Psychology, Memory
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Farnham-Diggory, S.; Gregg, Lee W. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Investigated memory span and memory scanning in both auditory and visual modalities of 24 good and poor, 10-year-old readers. The major finding was that short-term memory function deteriorated over time in the poor reading group. (Author/LLK)
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns