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Download full textRogoff, Barbara – 1977
In this study the relationship between mother's teaching style (verbal instruction vs. demonstration) and the child's performance on four memory tests was investigated. Mothers' teaching style with 9-year-old children was observed in an induced teaching situation in the home, in a Guatemalan Maya town. In the induced teaching situation, the mother…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Memory
Peer reviewedCohen, Ronald L.; Gowen, Anne – Intelligence, 1978
Two experiments examined whether correlations between IQ and probed serial running memory depend on IQ-related individual differences in the retention of order information in short-term memory. Children's IQ correlated with memory, regardless of whether instructions emphasized serial or free recall; and with recent item but not recent order…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedWagner, Daniel A. – Cognitive Psychology, 1978
The relationships of structural features of memory (e.g., short-term store) and of control processes in memory (e.g., verbal rehearsal) were compared according to age, rural-urban differences, and amount of education. Culturally-specific skills were also investigated in Moroccan rug sellers and Koranic students, and in American college students.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Educational Experience
