Two experiments examined the effects of task-specific instructions on the recall and recognition memory of kindergarten, 2nd and 5th grade children for pictorial stimuli. In Experiment 1, a recall test was used and prior to stimulus presentation subjects were given one of three instructions: either a Recall-specific set, a general Remember set, or…

This study examined children's use of category information as a discrimination cue to avoid intrusions in recall and false alarms in recognition of items outside given categories. Forty-eight children in grades 1 and 4 were administered one of three conditions of a recognition task in which all study words were members of one of two familiar…

Attempts to specify whether previously reported limitations on young children's full-report capacity lay in a smaller amount of available information, in a shorter trace duration of information in visual information storage (VIS), or in poorer coding of information into permanent storage. (Author/ED)

This study examines an extreme case of the influence of motives on memory. Eight-year-old children judged which of two sentences had been read to them 10 days earlier for 20 sentence pairs. (CM)

Compares the memorial consequences of orienting tasks which demand a high degree of information integration with those of tasks which demand a high degree of information selection. Subjects were 43 fifth grade children and 40 undergraduate students. (Author/MP)

Subjects aged 8, 10, 12, and 18 years participated in two visual search tasks. (Author/SB)

Visual, name and conceptual encoding of pictures were studied using a recognition memory task in which 4-, 8-, and 16-year-olds quickly decided whether or not pictures were identical to remembered study pictures. (SB)