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Naron, Nancy K.; Hall, James W. – 1974
Two conflicting hypotheses were investigated in this study. The first is based on an interference theory of forgetting and assumes that forgetting is largely a function of proactive interference, i.e., a result of interference by previously learned material. The second is based on the improvement of memory due to basic mechanisms that may operate…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Grade 3, Kindergarten Children, Learning Processes
McCormick, Claire; Lesgold, Alan M. – 1974
This paper reports on one study in a research program trying to extend existing findings on elaborative mediation in paired-associate learning into the domain of prose learning. Ten third graders and 22 fourth graders from an inner-city Catholic school served as subjects. A paraphrase recall pretest was administered which involved reading a…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Learning, Memory