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Arlin, Marshall; Brody, Richard – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Investigated developmental trends in organization and free recall as they interact with spatial representation and blocking. Subjects were 695 children in grades 4, 6 and 8. Task factors appeared to interact with developmental trends in both organization and free recall. (GO)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students
Weaver, Christopher T.; And Others – 1974
This study investigated children's developmental differences in adopting a clustering strategy while studying items for later recall. The central focus was on developmental differences in the efficient use of study strategies, rather than clustering in recall per se. Twenty-four third- and fifth-graders and 12 college students were given a series…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Haynes, C. Rayfield; Canaday, John O. – 1974
This paper describes an experiment which investigated the development of recall skills in 120 Caucasian, middle class children in the second, fourth, and sixth grades. Within each age group, four experimental groups were formed in which subjects were asked to remember and recall 16 nouns by: (1) forming mental representations of each word…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology
Schneider, Wolfgang – 1985
The present study investigated the relationship between developmental shifts in the organization of materials and developmental changes in deliberate strategy use. Second- and fourth-grade children were presented with clusterable sort/recall lists representing the factorial combinations of high and low inter-item association and high and low…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Classification, Cluster Grouping
Walden, Toini A. – 1974
This study was designed (1) to determine differences in classificatory skills of low socioeconomic status children under intervention and non-intervention conditions; (2) to determine differences in classification skills of bilingual, biliterate, and monolingual students; and (3) to study differences in classificatory skills as a function of age.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingual Students, Classification, Cluster Grouping