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Moynahan, Eileen D. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Extends the investigation of memory assessment to a situation in which memory performance on paired associate tasks varied with the use of different memory strategies. Subjects were 72 first, third, and fifth graders. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Mediation Theory, Memory
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Pressley, Michale; Levin, Joel R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
To test the comparative efficacy of a visual imagery associative learning strategy in younger and older children, second and sixth grade children were presented a list of paired associates (concrete nouns) either at a faster or slower rate, under either an instruction to generate an interactive image for the pairs or a no strategy, control…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Mediation Theory
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Pressley, Michael; Levin, Joel R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
In this study, the self-reported strategies of fifth, seventh, and ninth grade subjects used to learn a list of paired associates were correlated with actual learning performance to test the hypothesis that proficient learners are elaborators. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Elementary School Students