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"When I Was Little": Childhood Recollections in Chinese and European Canadian Grade School Children
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Peterson, Carole; Wang, Qi; Hou, Yubo – Child Development, 2009
Recollection of early childhood experiences was investigated in 225 European Canadian and 133 Chinese children (ages 8, 11, and 14) by a memory fluency task that measured accessibility of multiple early memories and elicited the earliest memory. Younger children provided memories of events that occurred at earlier ages than older children.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cultural Differences, Memory, Whites
Cognitive Consequences of Contrasting Pedagogies: The Effects of Quranic Preschooling in Morocco.
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Wagner, Daniel A.; Spratt, Jennifer E. – Child Development, 1987
Results indicate specific and positive effects of Quranic schooling on serial memory but not on other memory or cognitive tasks. These findings replicate earlier reports that Quranic schooling affects specific (and not general) memory skills. (PCB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Memory
Memory and Meaning in Two Cultures
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Kagan, Jerome; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Although the performance of American 5- and 8-year-olds was superior to the Guatemalans, the 11-year-olds in both cultures performed at an equally high level. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
A Cross-Cultural Study of Conjunctive and Disjunctive Concept Learning
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Ciborowski, Tom; Cole, Michael – Child Development, 1972
Two concept-formation experiments were conducted with groups of American and Liberian Ss differing in age and educational background. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences