This paper suggests that although there is reasonable evidence to support that portion of the Collins-Quillian theory of semantic memory which hypothesizes that words are ordered hierarchically in memory, there is little evidence in support of their hypothesis of cognitive economy of storage in memory. (Author)

Frequency Theory, deriving from word recognition studies, was applied to immediate recognition of nonrepresentational pictorial items by 12-year old Ss. (Author)

Explained is the use of memorizing techniques found to stimulate learning processes and memory in a group of learning disabled children. (CB)

Reports an experiment in which a topical system facilitated subjects' recall of information pertinent both to highly meaningful and less meaningful issues; based upon author's doctoral study, Pennsylvania State University. (RD)

Assessed the influence of mnemonic and attentional aids on children's double-alternation learning, in a prediction situation in which subject had to learn to produce two consecutive responses of the alternate types. (Author/AJ)

Paper presented at the Merrill-Palmer Conference on Research and Teaching of Infant Development, February 13-15, 1970. (JE)

Parts of the data described were presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 10-12, 1969. (MS)

Tests the hypothesis that semantic memory changes with age such that concepts become more strongly associated with their superordinate classes than with their exemplars. The Stroop color-naming technique was employed with 48 children 8 through 12 years of age to measure the degree of semantic activation between concepts in memory. (Author)