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Peer reviewedHauck, William E.; Thomas, John W. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1972
Findings suggest that humor facilitates the recall of incidental but not intentional learning. (MB)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Creativity, Elementary School Students, Humor
Peer reviewedDeichmann, John W.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
Peer reviewedSiegel, Alexander W.; Van Cara, Flo – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
Peer reviewedWheeler, Richard J.; Dusek, Jerome B. – Child Development, 1973
Study is an investigation of the effects of an attention-focusing variable--spatial separation of central and incidental cues--and a cognitive strategy factor--verbal labeling of central cues--and their interaction on the incidental learning of Ss younger than those previously tested with these manipulations. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedYarmey, A. Daniel; Bowen, Norma V. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Results illustrate that instructions to use imagery facilitate the intentional and the incidental learning of both normal and educable retarded children. (Authors)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Imagery
Download full textSiegel, Alexander W.; Van Cara, Flo – 1970
One hundred and eight kindergarten and elementary school children, 36 at each of three age levels (5, 7, and 9 years) participated in the experiment. All children were presented a three-part successive discrimination task; original learning, presentation of incidental stimuli, and a test of recongition and recall of the incidental material.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
Hagen, John William; Zukier, Henry – 1977
This study investigated the effects of distractors on children's task-relevant (central) and task-irrelevant (incidental) recall on a short term visual memory task involving pictures of familiar animals and household articles. The effect of mode of distractor (auditory or visual) and the effect of developmental level were also studied. Subjects…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Auditory Stimuli, Elementary School Students
