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McCabe, Jennifer A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
Classroom demonstrations of empirically supported learning and memory strategies have the potential to boost students' knowledge about their own memory and convince them to change the way they approach memory tasks in and beyond the classroom. Students in a "Human Learning and Memory" course learned about the "Method of Loci"…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Pretests Posttests, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
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Siegel, Alexander W.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
The spatial and temporal components of a serial position recall task were experimentally manipulated in a study using kindergarten, first grade, and second grade children to determine the factors involved in the primacy effect. (BRT)
Descriptors: Memory, Mnemonics, Primacy Effect, Primary Education
Siegel, Alexander W.; And Others – 1975
In this study, a procedure was devised to experimentally separate the spatial and temporal task components of a serial-position recall task in an attempt to account for the primacy effect observed in experiments using this paradigm with young children and retarded subjects. A total of 48, 5- to 7-year-old, children were tested in a serial-position…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten