Assesses children's recall performance using three memory instructions: standard free recall, repetition, and categorical processing. Recall performance was about equal for standard versus repetition and superior when category processing is used, especially with highly representative items. Concludes that at both 7 years and 10 years the…

The performance of 10 mildly mentally retarded adults on recognition memory tasks in a fixed-set and varied-set procedure was compared with that of nonretarded control subjects. Results suggest that retarded adults use different processing strategies in the two procedures and that rate of processing increases with increasing mental age. (Author/CL)

The effect of practice on recognition of mildly mentally retarded adults was investigated in two experiments using the S. Sternberg memory scanning paradigm. Although the generally poorer performance of retarded adults in this task may reflect some structural impairment, the initial level of deficiency is reduced by practice. (Author/CL)

Provides comments on research studies related to memory systems, considering those exploring the nature of memory traces. One researcher suggests that memory trace circuits are extremely localized (as opposed to being diffuse), such that a lesion in a rabbit's brain can completely destroy the trace for a particular learned response. (JN)

The problems which can arise in predicting the presence or absence of statistical interactions when a theoretical model is not set into correspondence with the experimental design model are considered in the context of a specific study of developmental differences in distractibility. (Author/HS)

Retardate use of retention strategies and the independence of color and form retention were compared with predictions of the Attention-Retention theory of retardate discrimination learning. Institutional retardates were selected from two MA ranges, 6 to 8 and 9 to 12 years, without regard to diagnostic categories. (Author/JH)

Forgetting, as defined by Piaget as Stage IV error, was studied in infants. Results partially support Piaget's hypothesis. (ST)

Infants 21- to 25-weeks-old devoted more visual fixation to novel than familiar stimuli on immediate and delayed recognition tests. The experiments confirm the existence of long-term recognition memory for pictorial stimuli in the early months of life. (DP)

This paper reviews research findings related to color and how it affects perception and retention of information. From the literature it appears colors have varying degrees of value as cues or aids to memory of stimulus information and difference appears to exist between colors as they interact in informational materials. (21 references)…

Study determined that complex sentences are recalled better if the described events within a sentence are presented in the same sequence as their correct temporal order''; the use of active vs. passive voice was not a factor in remembering the semantic content. (Author/SP)

A formula for the ratio of the variance of the pooled transformed data under departure from the binomial assumption to the variance of the pooled transformed data when the binomial assumption holds is given. (Authors)

Two related topics of interest to educational psychologists are those of meaningful versus rote learning and discovery versus reception techniques of teaching. (CK)