This study examines 4-year-olds' ability to search and find a missing object, a complex problem-solving task dependent on remembering events, logically deducing the possible subset of hiding places, and implementing situation-dependent search strategies. Sixty-four children recruited from two day care centers in a small midwestern city searched…

A study involving a sample of people selected to represent the nonimpaired American population, aged 16 to 74 years, was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of the Wechsler Memory Scale--Revised. The scale's subtests were designed to assess memory of personal and general knowledge, logical memory, verbal paired association, figural memory,…

Eighteen deaf college students performed two tasks designed to investigate possible alternative codes of reading and remembering. First, Ss judged the meaningfulness of sentences with or without a concurrent task (intended to interfere with either articulatory or visual-spatial coding). Secondly, Ss remembered a list of six letters presented…

How people select and process current events and political information through the media is studied. Throughout 1976, 21 adults were tested for recall of selected news stories; also, participants recorded daily three news stories that had come to their attention. Results indicated that participants totally ignored 67 percent of newspaper stories.…

It has been shown that internally generated (thought or imagination) and externally generated (events, things, or people encountered in the past) autobiographical memories differ in characteristic ways. To examine the consequences of rehearsal on simulated perceived and imagined autobiographical memories, 36 undergraduate students participated in…

In this paper two models of memory are described and implications for hearing impaired students noted. Research on linguistic encoding in short-term memory is also reviewed. The majority of studies suggest that for hearing/speaking Ss, encoding bases are primarily phonological or sound-based, regardless of presentation mode. For deaf/signing Ss,…

Experiments presented indicate that perseverative error in year-old infants cannot simply be a memory problem. Possible explanations are examined. (Author/ED)

Thirty graduate students were asked to produce a type of semantic information; they named psychologists who satisfied certain restrictions. Not only was the speed in responding influenced by the speed in which restrictions were given, but the effect of order differed for advanced and beginning students. (Author/RC)

The effects on free recall of presenting words twice with different numbers of intervening items (spacings) and three times with different amounts and patterns of spacing were examined. (Editor)

Examines some of the most widely used tests of visual form in relation to achievement and discusses the implications for teaching. (RB)

This is the third and last of a series of excerpts from the Cookbook. (Editor)

Discusses experiments testing the adequacy of the common attribute-value representation for knowledge about concepts. (AM)

Second and sixth grade children's relative sensitivity to acoustic, semantic, and physical dimensions was inferred from the amount of release from proactive interference obtained for shifts along each dimension. (ED)

The theme of this paper is that learning and memory are generative processes, involving the transfer of previous learning, aptitudes, ways of processing information, and affective states. (Author)

This paper describes some of the more spectacular range effects reported in the literature. (Author)