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Elisabeth C. McLane; S. Kyle Hatcher; Diana Selmeczy – Child Development, 2025
Prioritizing what information to learn based on value is a critical developmental skill. Across two studies, value-based memory was assessed predominately in White children aged 6- to 7-years-old and 9- to 10-years-old using a nationwide sample collected between 2020 and 2023. Children learned cue-target associations worth varying point values.…
Descriptors: Memory, Learning Strategies, Whites, Children
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Hurst, Michelle A.; Boyer, Ty W.; Cordes, Sara – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Although difficulties processing both symbolic and nonsymbolic proportion compared with absolute number are well established, the mechanisms involved remain unclear. We investigate four potential explanations to account for better number processing in adulthood: (a) number is more salient than proportion, (b) number is encoded more automatically…
Descriptors: Attention, Numbers, Cognitive Processes, Interference (Learning)