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Peer reviewedCorgiat, Mark D.; And Others – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1989
Evaluated contributions of age, presentation modality, task demand, and content structure to prose recall variation among adults. Tested 60 young and 60 older adults for recall of ideas in 641-word prose passage. Found recall for total number of idea units was significantly lower for older participants and for auditory presentation across both age…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Learning Modalities, Memory, Older Adults
Carey, James Otto – 1976
The purpose of this study was threefold: to determine whether adding a mnemonic to systematically designed instruction would improve verbal retention, to establish whether retention is better for concrete or abstract information, and to determine whether mental imagery or verbal elaboration is more effective for learning concrete or abstract…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
