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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
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Rosner, Sue R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Data Analysis, Memory, Preschool Children
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Richardson, John T. E. – Cognitive Psychology, 1979
A system of precategorized acoustic storage has accounted for the recency effect obtained in the immediate serial recall of sequences of digits, consonants, or syllables. Four experiments in recall of word sequences investigated fit to this model. A system of postcategorical lexical storage was concluded to explain the results. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education