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Miller, Stephanie E.; Marcovitch, Stuart; Boseovski, Janet J.; Lewkowicz, David J. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
The use and understanding of ordinal terms (e.g., "first" and "second") is a developmental milestone that has been relatively unexplored in the preschool age range. In the present study, 4- and 5-year-olds watched as a reward was placed in one of three train cars labeled by the experimenter with an ordinal (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Preschool Children, Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
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Oztekin, Ilke; Gungor, Nur Zeynep; Badre, David – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The response-signal speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT) procedure was used to provide an in-depth investigation of the impact of aging on the dynamics of short-term memory retrieval. Young and older adults studied sequentially presented 3-item lists, immediately followed by a recognition probe. Analyses of composite list and serial position SAT…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Older Adults, Serial Ordering, Short Term Memory