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Peer reviewedGhatala, Elizabeth S.; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Tests the hypotheses that superiority of semantic over phonetic encoding increases with age, and that the superiority of multiple-dimension encoding over single-dimension encoding emerges with age. Elementary, secondary, and graduate students judged words on various dimensions of the semantic differential in an incidental memory task. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Graduate Students, Memory
Download full textLevin, Joel R.; Ghatala, Elizabeth S. – 1976
When 112 fifth- and sixth-graders were observed for their use of one of two possible rehearsal strategies in verbal discrimination learning tasks, the strategy in which the children generated a functional explanation of the word showed a positive influence on simple frequency discriminations. Data analyses also indicate that under this strategy…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Grade 5, Grade 6
