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Download full textReeve, Robert A. – 1985
Two experiments were conducted to determine whether children remembered information more efficiently if they were provided with an explicit purpose for learning. In the first experiment, 96 5-year-old children watched a simple science demonstration and were told either to remember the names of the depicted items from pictures for a memory test…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Educational Research, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
