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Direct linkCahan, Sorel; Mor, Yaniv – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
This article challenges Yaakov Kareev's (1995a, 2000) argument regarding the positive bias of intuitive correlation estimates due to working memory capacity limitations and its adaptive value. The authors show that, under narrow window theory's primacy effect assumption, there is a considerable between-individual variability of the effects of…
Descriptors: Primacy Effect, Memory, Intuition, Correlation
Peer reviewedCohen, Ronald L.; Nealson, Judi – Intelligence, 1979
Retarded subjects were compared with mental- and chronological-age matched controls on serial short-term memory (STM) tasks. Retarded subjects were inferior to the control groups on both primacy and recency items, under two recall conditions. These data are discussed in relation to possible mechanisms underlying IQ-related individual differences…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences
