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Peer reviewedPressley, Michael; Levin, Joel R. – Child Development, 1980
Instructions were given to first and sixth graders to use an imagery-retrieval strategy in recalling 18 paired associates. (SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Imagery, Memorization
Peer reviewedKestner, Jane; Borkowski, John G. – Child Development, 1979
In experiment 1, 48 first-grade children were presented one of four elaboration strategies or labeling instructions during a single study trial and then recalled 16 paired associates. In experiment 2, 32 first-grade children were trained over a four-day period in the use of an interrogative elaboration strategy or received labeling instructions.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Generalization, Interviews
Peer reviewedLevin, Joel R.; And Others – Child Development, 1975
Investigated whether there exists a stage of development at which "imagery-inducing motor activity" ceases to be facilitative relative to the effectiveness of alternative kinds of associative-learning strategies. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Imagery, Motor Development
Peer reviewedWolff, Peter; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Using a yoked control procedure, kindergarteners either produced or observed interactions between pairs of toys. Children who performed rather than observed remembered the pairings over time. (ST)
Descriptors: Kindergarten Children, Learning, Motor Development, Observational Learning
Peer reviewedAckerman, Brian P. – Child Development, 1986
Two experiments examine use of defining, characteristic, category, and identical semantic features of word concept information in cued recall. College adults and 7- to 11-year-old children were shown word triplets in which context words were related or unrelated to final target word. Results suggest meaning features differ in providing medium for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Concept Formation
