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Nelson, Katherine – 1979
The knowledge system of the young child is considered script-based, where script is used (in the Schank and Abelson 1977 sense) as a frame defining an expected sequence of actions in a given context involving props, scenes, and actors. This study was concerned with how scripts may be influenced by the structure of different events and the child's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Role, Experience, Memory
Doiron, Renee; Cameron, Catherine Ann – 1986
A study investigated the effects of presentation mode and type of content on young children's recall of nouns in a scripted narrative. Forty-nine children in the second month of first grade were presented a fictional narrative in which were embedded 18 target nouns classified as high-scripted, medium-scripted, or low-scripted. Subjects then viewed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Grade 3, Memory