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Hughes, Robert W.; Marsh, John E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
A functional, perceptual-motor, account of serial short-term memory (STM) is examined by investigating the way in which an irrelevant spoken sequence interferes with verbal serial recall. Even with visual list-presentation, verbal serial recall is particularly susceptible to disruption by irrelevant spoken stimuli that have the same identity…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Interference (Learning), Recall (Psychology), Serial Learning
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Anwar, Feriha; Hermelin, Beate – Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 1979
Descriptors: Downs Syndrome, Drafting, Exceptional Child Research, Foreign Countries
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Forrester, Michael A.; And Others – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1990
Presents results of a study of the role of context upon English children's estimation skills. Includes estimation tasks involving distance, area, and volume measurements and children's answers about how they carried out the tasks. Concludes that estimates in contexts perceived as mathematical differed from those involving perceptual-motor skills.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Context Effect, Elementary Education
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Lishman, Joan – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Discuses three perspectives on literature about children classified as severely subnormal for educational purposes: perceptual motor theories, behavior modification interpretation, and Laban movement. Descriptions of each include investigations, administration, adult participants, observation schedules, teaching processes, and data gathering…
Descriptors: Body Image, Children, Educational Theories, Individual Differences