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Is Verbal Rehearsal Strategic? An Investigation into Overt Rehearsal of Nameable Pictures in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children
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Candice C. Morey; Angela M. AuBuchon; Meg Attwood; Thomas Castelain; Nelson Cowan; Davide Crepaldi; Emilie Fjerdingstad; Eivor Fredriksen; Chris Jarrold; Chris Koch; Jaroslaw R. Lelonkiewicz; Gary Lupyan; Whitney Mendenhall; David Moreau; Christina Schonberg; Christian K. Tamnes; Haley Vlach; Emily M. Elliott – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2025
Though verbal rehearsal is a frequently endorsed strategy for remembering short lists among adults, there is ambiguity around when children deploy it, and what circumstantial factors encourage them to rehearse. We recoded data from a recent multilab replication of a serial picture memory task in which children were observed for evidence of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Recall (Psychology), Learning Processes, Priming
A Field Experiment on Mnemonic and Conceptual Understanding among Chinese Elementary School Students
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Kitty K. Y. Tsang; Shui-fong Lam – Chinese Education & Society, 2025
This study compared the effectiveness of two encoding strategies (peg system vs. conceptual understanding) on serial learning. Sixty Chinese 5th graders from a primary school in Hong Kong participated in training on the two strategies in two consecutive weeks. While half of the students learned peg system in the first week and conceptual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mnemonics, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5
Gaze-Based Rehearsal in Children under 7: A Developmental Investigation of Eye Movements during a Serial Spatial Memory Task
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Morey, Candice C.; Mareva, Silvana; Lelonkiewicz, Jaroslaw R.; Chevalier, Nicolas – Developmental Science, 2018
The emergence of strategic verbal rehearsal at around 7 years of age is widely considered a major milestone in descriptions of the development of short-term memory across childhood. Likewise, rehearsal is believed by many to be a crucial factor in explaining why memory improves with age. This apparent qualitative shift in mnemonic processes has…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Mnemonics, Child Development, Qualitative Research
Further Testing of Limits of Cognitive Plasticity: Negative Age Differences in a Mnemonic Skill Are Robust.
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Baltes, Paul B.; Kliegl, Reinhold – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Tested the ability of 19 older adults, given additional training in a mental imagination technique, to approach the performance of 16 younger adults on serial word recall tasks. Results indicated that negative age differences in older adults' performance were substantial, resistant to extensive practice, and applicable to all subjects. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Encoding (Psychology), Foreign Countries
Learning via Mnemonic Pictures: Analysis of the Presidential Process.
Levin, Joel R.; And Others – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1983
Students learned the numerical order of 14 U.S. Presidents through either a complex mnemonic strategy or their own technique. Performance pattern differences were detected between the groups, chiefly serial position profiles produced by those using their own techniques, and slower response time of subjects using mnemonic strategies. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies