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Kail, Robert V., Jr.; Levine, Laura – 1974
A total of 240, 7- and 10-year-olds were tested on memory and sex-role preference tasks. The memory task was the Wickens release from proactive inhibition paradigm in which short-term recall of words is tested on successive trials. On trials 1-4 words were selected from 1 of 2 categories, either words with masculine or feminine connotations. On…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology, Elementary Education