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Nezworski, Teresa; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1982
Study examines possibility that certain story constituents are better recalled than others, suggesting a universal, underlying representation for a story by controlling for semantic content of settings, initiating events, internal responses, consequences, and reactions across versions of same story. Results show subjects transformed syntactic form…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Research, Memory, Middle Class
Peer reviewedWetherick, N. E.; And Others – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Word lists were given to 176 Scottish children, ages 15, 11, 8, and 6. Analysis of variance on recall scores indicated that Jensen's findings of greater recall by middle class children may be only a transitory phenomenon, not evidence of permanent middle class superiority in Level II ability. (Editor/SJL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Elementary School Students, Lower Class Students
Peer reviewedTversky, Barbara; Teiffer, Evelyn – Developmental Psychology, 1976
A total of 122 kindergartners, third and fifth graders viewed 30 pictures of familiar objects and interested on their free recall of the object names and their recognition of the original pictures. Half received instruction in adult recognition strategies, half in adult recall strategies. (MS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education
