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Download full textHagen, John William; Kail, Robert V., Jr. – 1973
Children's short-term memory was studied under two experimental conditions: one in which recall was expected to be facilitated because of the provision of a study period, and one in which a distracting task was imposed that was expected to interfere with recall. Forty subjects at each of two age levels, 7 and 11 years, were tested in a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Memory, Primacy Effect
Gianutsos, Rosamond – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Purpose of these four experiments was to elucidate the role of grouping in remembering words by using single-trial free recall. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Information Storage, Memory
Peer reviewedGoodwin, C. James; Bruce, Darryl – American Journal of Psychology, 1972
Free recall showed a drop in primacy with practice whereas reconstruction did not, which suggests that temporal tags per se may be relatively unimportant as retrieval cues for the recall of early list members. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Primacy Effect, Recall (Psychology)
