Compares the semantic processing skills of younger adults (mean age 25) and older adults (mean age 68). After reading a sentence, subjects performed a task in which responses did not depend on retention. Results provided no evidence for age-related changes, including those associated with access to implied information. (Author/RH)

Discusses normative developmental changes in cardiovascular and electrodermal activity and describes the dynamic balance between branches of the autonomic nervous system. Issues for further developmental study are identified, and problems and limitations in the psychophysiological study of children are explored. (Author/RH)

In a free recall task with categorized lists, 40 fifth graders' and 40 adults' retrieval was examined temporally by means of interword response times. List organization and retrieval cue factors were manipulated in order to assess the developmental relevance of an hypothesized three component retrieval model. (JH)

The Ss were required to retain a short list of items for an entire experiment while processing successive different short lists of items in the Sternberg paradigm. (Editor)

The present experiment attempted to restrict processing by requiring Ss to process the material either orthographically or taxonomically in a reaction time situation, which should place constraints upon additional processing. (Author)

One purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the presence or absence of background pictures would have differential effects on kindergarten children's free recall and whether such effects would be affected by the relationship between the test items and the backgrounds. (Authors)

Using recognition rather than recall test procedures gives results which are inconsistent with the main features of the visual trace model for short-term memory. (Author)

The finding of major significance in this study concerns the effect of stimulant drug medication on the relationship between heart rate deceleration and reaction time with the clinic children. (Authors)

Age differences in reaction time (elderly vs. young adults) were found to persist even when stimulus intensities were adjusted on an individual basis of reported loudness. (WY)

Results support the contention that with advancing years brain-damaged children may adapt to and/or recover from the deficit(s) involved in the inability to develop and maintain a readiness to respond. (Author/MB)

Primary purpose of this study was to investigate the processes underlying simple mental multiplication. (Author)

Results were interpreted as support for the hypothesis that making associations to verbal units facilitates recall and that reaction time is an index of the facility with which associations can be made. (Authors)

Differences in the rate of successive acquisition of four concepts as a result of two presentation conditions and their interaction with the learner's preferred strategy was investigated. (Authors)