Determines some reasons that children may ignore detected inconsistencies in judging story adequacy. Results indicate that factors specific to a story and the construction of its internal representation, contribute to the judging and monitoring performance of children. (RJC)

Two experiments examine use of defining, characteristic, category, and identical semantic features of word concept information in cued recall. College adults and 7- to 11-year-old children were shown word triplets in which context words were related or unrelated to final target word. Results suggest meaning features differ in providing medium for…