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Foley, Wayne Edward; Lippman, Louis G. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1970
Neither adults' nor children's performances on a reconstruction task was affected by spatial variation, but children's performance was influenced by variation in the temporal sequence of stimulus presentation. This article is based upon an M.A. thesis by the first author under supervision of the second author. A version of this paper was presented…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Serial Learning, Task Performance, Time Factors (Learning)
Hagen, 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