Cross-Cultural Invariance in Story Recall.

Mandler, Jean M.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1980-Mar

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Cross-Cultural Invariance in Story Recall.

Mandler, Jean M.; And Others

Child Development, v51 n1 p19-26 Mar 1980

Compares data on recall of stories by Liberian nonschooled children, nonliterate adults, nonschooled literate adults and schooled literate adults to similar data on American children and adults. Results indicate a universality of certain kinds of schematic organization and their control of memorial processes. (CM)

Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Memory, Recall (Psychology), Story Telling

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Liberia

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