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Kail, Robert V., Jr.; Schroll, John T. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Investigates the development of evaluative and taxonomic encoding in 7-, to 8-, and 11-year-old children's memories, and related experimental findings to recent work on the development of encoding in memory. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students
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Yussen, Steven R. – Child Development, 1972
Results revealed that (1) relevant verbal experience facilitated learning only for preschoolers, (2) irrelevant verbal experience did not interfere with learning, and (3) visual highlighting exerted no significant effects. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Grade 2, Learning Processes
Fahrmeier, Edward D.; Medin, Douglas L. – 1975
In order to examine the nature of dimensional processing in children, 20 kindergarten and 20 third grade Chinese-American children were asked to make similarity judgments for unidimensional sets of stimuli differing in color (hue), size, and shape, respectively. Age differences were generally confined to the color set. The judgments of the older…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Chinese Americans, Cultural Differences, Dimensional Preference