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Study Techniques Differentially Influence the Delayed Judgment-of-Learning Accuracy of Adolescent Children and College-Aged Adults
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Hughes, Gregory I.; Taylor, Holly A.; Thomas, Ayanna K. – Metacognition and Learning, 2018
The ways in which adult learners study information influences their judgment-of-learning (JOL) accuracy (e.g., Koriat et al. "Journal of Experimental Psychology: General," determine whether developing learners' metacognitive monitoring is similarly influenced by different study techniques. In two experiments, we examined JOL accuracy in…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Metacognition, College Students, Adolescents
An Associative-Activation Theory of Children's and Adults' Memory Illusions
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Howe, Mark L.; Wimmer, Marina C.; Gagnon, Nadine; Plumpton, Shannon – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
The effects of associative strength and gist relations on rates of children's and adults' true and false memories were examined in three experiments. Children aged 5-11 and university-aged adults participated in a standard Deese/Roediger-McDermott false memory task using DRM and category lists in two experiments and in the third, children…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, College Students, Children
The Effects of Verbalization on Verbal Discrimination Learning and Associative Recall in Young Children and Adults
Goulet, L. R.; Hoyer, William J. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Supported by grant MH-13515-02 from the U. S. Public Health Service.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, College Students, Discrimination Learning
Word Associations as Related to Children's Verbal Habits.
Palermo, David S. – 1965
Free-association norms for 200 words were obtained in 1964 from the responses of 500 subjects in each of grades four through eight, 10, and 12 and from 1,000 college students. An analysis of this normative data revealed that (1) the frequency of occurrence of the most popular associative responses to stimulus words increases with the age of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Children
Changes in Memory Attribute Dominance as a Function of Age
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Freund, Joel S.; Johnson, Judy W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Developmental changes in the relative dominance of three attributes of memory were investigated. (Authors)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Age Differences, Associative Learning, College Students
Automatic, Attentional, and Interactive Processes: Age Differences in the Nature of Words Affected by Sentence Context.
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Schwantes, Frederick M. – 1983
Two experiments investigated the effects of preceding sentence context on the naming times of sentence completion words in third-grade children and college students. In the first study subjects were shown incomplete sentences with four types of target words: best completions; semantically and syntactically appropriate, but less likely completions;…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Attention, Cognitive Processes