Two experiments examined memory load, rule frequency, and rule arrangement in the prediction learning of serial digit patterns. (Editor)

The present article reports six studies that both extend the range of conditions that produce within-list serial position effects and attempt to unravel three possible theoretical explanations for these functions. (Editor)

Using a network of comparisons, B. Hayes-Roth and F. Hayes-Roth found that subjects performed better on adjacent than on nonadjacent comparisons. Results suggested that such networks are processed in a manner fundamentally different from simple linear arrays. Here subjects were required to learn a similar knowledge structure. These results…

The tasks with item and position probes seem similar. Given an item probe, a subject must recall its position in the spatial array; given a position probe, the item in that position in the array. Analysis of correct responses and latencies showed that item and position probes yielded different results. (Editor/RK)

Deals with memory for lists of items. The literature is briefly reviewed, and the main difficulties for traditional explanations of serial order effects are noted. (RK)

On the basis of these findings, both the measurement techniques of previous studies and Piaget's analysis of seriation are challenged. (Author)

Study attempted to specify two complementary aspects of children's inferential size judgments within the context of Piaget's theory. (Authors)

Two experiments compared Ss' serial recall of 16 hierarchically formed patterns of ordered digits. (Author)

Results indicate that Ss expectancy for a given test stimulus probability, has its effect on the encoding or decision stage of the memory-scanning process. (Authors)

A significant positive correlation between multiple classification was found, in testing 65 children aged 6 to 8 years, at the stage of concrete operations. This is interpreted as support for the existence of a structure d'ensemble of operational schemes in the period of concrete operations. (Authors)

Results are discussed in terms of the development and activation of cognitive structures. (Authors)

Purpose of this study was to determine whether instructional sequencing would affect learning from a logical structure when certain artifacts, which may have operated in previous studies, were removed. (Authors)

Asks if current interference theory will also predict proactive inhibition in serial learning. Proactive inhibition is the result, at least in part, of a particular type of deficit in second-list learning. (Author/RK)

The lack of difference with regard to socioeconomic-status levels indicates that the previous research which revealed notable socioeconomic-status influences may have had socioeconomic status confounded to varying degrees with differences in underlying verbal skills. (Authors)

Results indicate that within the limitations of this study there is evidence that children with superior" intelligence showed more mature response patterns on Piaget-type tasks than children of the same age with average" intelligence test scores. (Author)