Words with a high degree of imagery serve as better mnemonic devices than do words that are abstract, as the latter initiate complex thought processes. (CK)

Visual short-term memory depends upon an ordered two-dimensional array of locations for its existence, whereas associative memory relies on associations between character representatives. (CK)

Subjects learning high-frequency names had significantly better recall, confirming that color memory is a function of linguistic codability, not perceptual experience. (Author)

This study is the fourth in a series of studies that have attempted to examine the relationship between two separate aptitude factors--associative memory and reasoning--to various performance criteria in a hierarchical learning task utilizing computer-assisted instruction. Two clear effects seem to emerge from the data. During learning, the…

It was observed that whereas in the average IQ level, the high-SES sample did better than the low-SES sample in short-term memory, this was reversed in the low IQ level. (Authors)

Eighty nursery school children were randomly divided into four groups of 20 and given a serial short-term memory task in which difficult-to-label stimuli were used. Three experimental groups were provided with labels for the stimuli. Of these, one group overtly pronounced the labels and rehearsed them during the task, one group merely pronounced…

Results of three experiments provided no substantial evidence of selective encoding. (Authors/MB)