Attribute Structure and Incidental Memory for Words: Test of a Developmental Hypothesis.

Ghatala, Elizabeth S.; And Others

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Attribute Structure and Incidental Memory for Words: Test of a Developmental Hypothesis.

Ghatala, Elizabeth S.; And Others

Child Development, v51 n3 p685-90 Sep 1980

Tests the hypotheses that superiority of semantic over phonetic encoding increases with age, and that the superiority of multiple-dimension encoding over single-dimension encoding emerges with age. Elementary, secondary, and graduate students judged words on various dimensions of the semantic differential in an incidental memory task. (Author/SS)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Graduate Students, Memory, Patterned Responses, Recall (Psychology), Secondary School Students, Semantic Differential

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