Two experiments were conducted which investigated the developmental patterns of children's rehearsal and organization of material to be memorized. (JMB)

Reports two experiments conducted in an attempt to extend findings by Ellis which suggest a rehearsal deficit in mentally retarded adults. (Author/SDH)

This article discusses cognitive development as a primary educational objective and focuses on three cognitive processes: the prepared mind, the attending mind, and the processing mind. (PD)

Reported is a study to investigate possible relationships between certain schemes of formal operational thought and the extent to which a cognitive system is open or closed; and to study the logical thought processes of subjects in the transitional phase between adolescence and adulthood using formal operational tasks. Rokeach's (1960) Dogmatism…

Argues that the questioning and answering interaction provides a setting whereby adults can socialize naive children into communal views of reality. It is suggested, however, that this tradition acts both as a brake and as a springboard to the acquisition of new knowledge. (MS)

Encourages college writing teachers to promote composition as a way of learning and developing basic to all disciplines. (DD)

Investigated the pedagogical quality of physical space by adapting a classroom to create a material "educational field" and testing children's performance on a "go to the front and right of the tower" activity. Found that the educational field made it possible for children to put into relation two spatial reference systems and…

Examined a theoretical interpretation of recall as a system in which the influences of memory strength, episodic activation, and output interference must be balanced to maximize recall. Children never recalled stronger words before weaker words. As learning progressed, a weaker-stronger-weaker ordering of recalled words emerged. (BC)

This study utilized the head-turn preference procedure in four experiments to determine whether 1-year-old infants could extract and remember information from auditory strings produced by miniature artificial grammar. Findings indicated that subjects generalized to the new structure by discriminating new grammatical strings from ungrammatical ones…

Two studies examined the acquisition of automatic processing in a total of 22 persons with and 34 persons without mental retardation. An effect of search set size was found for both groups which disappeared with practice. Evidence of automaticity occurred with less practice for subjects without mental retardation. (Author/DB)

Concept maps are an instructional strategy that promotes meaningful learning. This chapter examines the use of concept maps in online environments through discussion of CmapTools software. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)