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Children's Use of "Extra-List" Cues to Retrieve Theme and Category Episodic Information from Memory.
Peer reviewedAckerman, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes four experiments that examined the ability of second- and fifth-grade children and college adults to use "extra-list" cues to retrieve episodic information from memory. Shows that effective cue use varied with both the "match" of cue and event classification, and with the associative structure of permanent memory.…
Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Classification, Cognitive Development
