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Levin, Joel R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
The major finding of the present experiment was that children as young a 7 or 8 (second graders) were able to employ an induced visual-imagery strategy to facilitate paired-associate learning. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Grade 2, Grade 5
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Cramer, Phebe – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
The effects of neutral, separate, and interactive imagery instructions on the learning performance of first and fifth graders were compared for both single-item and paired-associate tasks. Results revealed that both younger and older children using images did show facilitation, compared with those not using images. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Grade 1, Grade 5
Kossan, Nancy E. – 1979
This study investigated developmental differences in the use of the common features abstraction strategy and the exemplar learning strategy for concept acquisition. Subjects were 30 second graders and 30 fifth graders. The concepts to be learned were two categories of artificial animals which differed on five dimensions. Each dimension had three…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development