A chronometric mental rotation paradigm was applied to examine manipulation of visual imagery in early adolescents in relation to age, sex, mental rotation ability, and socioeconomic background. Subjects were fifth- and seventh-grade boys and girls from a middle and lower socioeconomic background. (Author/MP)

Tests the appropriateness of the levels-of-processing model for hearing impaired children on a recognition memory task. Subjects were 89 children ranging in age from 6 years to 12 years. (MP)

Investigated the possibility that older children recall more than younger ones because they have more information about items available for multiple encoding. (Author/DB)

Children aged 48 - 77 months were given experience in either color oddity or nominal class sorting prior to a transfer task that tested their ability to apply the oddity rule ("which one doesn't belong") to three picture arrays for which solution was based on nominal class membership. (RH)

Second and sixth graders acquired information about a large-scale environment either actively or passively. They were subsequently asked to estimate distances in either active or passive response style. Unlike the older children, second graders did not estimate distances accurately when acquisition and response activities were incongruent.…

Investigated multiple coding for children of different ages and tested the generality of strategy effects obtained in single code studies for multiple coding. (Author/DB)

Two experiments were conducted to study developmental changes in the integration of stimulus dimensions in an area judgment task. Following functional measurement methodology, absolute judgments on a linear graphic rating scale were obtained. (Author/SS)

Three studies examined early development of recall. Children between 2 years 9 months and 5 years of age were tested on nine-item lists containing three objects from each of three conceptual categories or nine objects for nine different conceptual categories. (Author/SS)

Examined development of ability to inhibit thoughts within free speech by manipulating the content requirements of overt streams-of-consciousness. Investigation with kindergartners, second graders, fifth graders, and adults revealed a developmental improvement in inhibitory ability over the middle-childhood years; results are consistent with…

Examined how developmental differences in perceptual and conceptual priming between 8 and 19 years coincide with differences between familiarity and recollective responses on explicit memory tests employing the Remember/Know paradigm. Found few age-group differences in perceptual priming following a levels-of-processing encoding manipulation. In…

Three age groups were read the same short story. Their responses to interpretive questions were taken as texts and analyzed for age-distinctive word usage. Characteristic forms of talk were found, and age-specific patterns of interpretive thinking were derived from the forms. In general, 10 year olds saw a plot, adolescents a plight, and adults a…

Comments on the study reported by Feldman and others in this issue. Suggests that, in the study, subjects' word frequencies might be the result of subjects' familiarity with the words rather than the words' narrative role and that there is uncertainty in inferring interpretive patterns of subjects from word frequencies. (BC)

Age related declines in fluid intelligence were accounted for by age-related declines in a general latency factor (cognitive speed) for 63 adults aged 26 to 80 years, but results called into question the assumption that cognitive speed accounts for all individual IQ differences. (SLD)

The matching-to-sample performances of three young adults with autism and four children (ages four to nine) without intellectual disabilities were examined in three experiments using complex sample stimuli. Results for all subjects showed that each of two redundant relevant sample elements and their respective comparison stimuli were substitutable…

Investigated relationship between young children's ability to predict another observer's interpretation of an ambiguous picture and to identify the source of a misinterpretation after it had occurred. Found that six-year-olds were more likely than four- and five-year-olds to predict that a puppet would misinterpret the target-restricted view and…