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Rabinowitz, Mitchell – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
The hypothesis that variation in accessibility of categorical knowledge affects its use as an organizational device was tested in this experiment using 36 second graders and 36 fifth graders from a middle-class community within San Diego, California. The students memorized each of two lists of words that differed in category representativeness.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comprehension