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Peer reviewedHowe, Mark L.; Courage, Mary L.; Vernescu, Roxana; Hunt, Melvine – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Three experiments examined kindergartners' and second graders' retention in the context of two distinctiveness manipulations, the von Restorff and bizarre imagery paradigms. Results showed that: older children retained more information from lists of pictures or interactive images over 3 weeks than younger; younger children failed to benefit from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Download full textGorrell, Jeffrey; Downing, Hunter – 1988
The current study was devised to determine the short-term (1 month) and long-term (4 months) effects of having students generate their own examples of selected concepts. More specifically, focus was on determining how self-generated examples might enhance the learning and retrieval of concepts. Subjects were 55 (54 female and 1 male) undergraduate…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Higher Education
Keefe, James W., Ed. – 1988
In 1986, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, with the assistance of a national task force, published the NASSP Learning Style Profile (LSP) for diagnosis of the cognitive styles, perceptual response tendencies, and instructional preferences of middle level and senior high school students. This monograph offers a short course…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
