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Swanson, H. Lee – Child Development, 1977
A serial recognition task was used to compare performance of two age groups of learning disabled children (mean chronological ages 8.1 and 10.6) with 2- and 3-dimensional representations of nonlabeled 8-point random shapes. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Memory
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Sarver, Gary S.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
The present study was designed to investigate the effects of stimulus presentation rate on recall and primacy-recency effects in children. Results indicated that the traditional interpretation of the primacy effect as reflecting long-term memory store may not be valid. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Memory
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Engle, Randall W.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
To examine developmental aspects of auditory sensory memory, a series of experiments was conducted on the stimulus suffix effect with the primary variables being age of subject (7 and 11 years), rates of presentation, and length of list. Effects were nearly identical across age groups when a fast presentation rate was used. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Children, Cognitive Processes
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McGilly, Kate; Siegler, Robert S. – Child Development, 1989
Investigated the serial recall strategies of 96 children aged 5-8 years by applying a theoretical and methodological approach originally developed to investigate preschoolers' arithmetic strategies. Results indicated the use of multiple approaches for serial recall and adaptive strategy choices. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Ehri, Linnea C. – 1973
In order to verify claims made by Genevan researchers that linguistic production but not comprehension capabilities distinguish seriators from nonseriators, three tasks were administered to children between the ages of four and eight. Subjects were asked to arrange in order objects varying in size, to describe how the objects differed from each…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Developmental Tasks