An investigation was conducted to examine a particular aspect of the following questions: (1) What, if anything, do kindergartners do when presented with a set of pictures that might serve to facilitate their retention of pictorial stimuli? (2) What might they be capable of doing in the context of a recognition test that they might not be able to…

To determine whether different long-term memory representations are necessary for verbal and visual material, subjects studied faces composed of visual features or verbal facts composed of concepts. Findings showed interference between verbal and pictorial information, and supported the ACT theory that pictorial and verbal materials are stored…

Ratcliff's theory of memory retrieval which posits parallel processing and Sternberg's serial processing explanation of memory scanning are reviewed and contrasted. Discrepancy between the two theories may arise because they focus on different aspects of the data. If scanning without comparisons takes place, the two views may be reconciled.…