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Kerst, Stephen Marshall – 1974
The purposes of this study were to determine if test stimulus was a member of the memory set and if items in an interactive image held in short term memory (STM) could be scanned simultaneously. In experiment one, 50 university subjects compared a test word with a set of one to three words held in STM. The rate of STM search was obtained by…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning, Memory, Paired Associate Learning
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Danner, Fred W.; Taylor, Arthur M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Examines the hypothesis that first, third, and sixth graders' recall of noun triplets would be facilitated by using (1) related pictures of nouns, (2) training in imagining relations between separate pictures of nouns, and (3) a combination of these two processes. (DP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Imagery, Learning
Hale, Gordon A.; Piper, Richard A. – 1973
Evidence regarding children's incidental learning has been derived largely from tasks in which the incidental stimulus features have been independent of the task-relevant information. The present study examined children's incidental learning with compound pictorial stimuli under conditions in which the relevant and incidental features were: (a)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Children, Cognitive Development