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DEVELOPMENTAL DIFFERENCES IN ORGANIZATIONAL CRITERIA IN FREE RECALL

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1981
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This experiment explored the possibility of a developmental shift from organization according to associative criteria to organization according to taxonomic criteria. First, fourth and seventh graders were presented with a list of items which could be organized equally well into either groups of taxonomic or associative pairs. Children were randomly assigned to either the Sort or No Sort Condition. While clustering levels for children in the Sort Condition were significantly greater than those of children in the No Sort Condition both had high overall levels of clustering. First grade children's organizational styles during sorting, were significantly more associative than were fourth or seventh graders, who increasingly organized taxonomically. These results suggest that it is not that young children are incapable of using effective organizational strategies to mediate recall, but rather, that their strategies differ from those of older children and adults.
Title: DEVELOPMENTAL DIFFERENCES IN ORGANIZATIONAL CRITERIA IN FREE RECALL.
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Name(s): DE MARCHENA, MELANIE RUTH RABIN.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1981
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 60 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This experiment explored the possibility of a developmental shift from organization according to associative criteria to organization according to taxonomic criteria. First, fourth and seventh graders were presented with a list of items which could be organized equally well into either groups of taxonomic or associative pairs. Children were randomly assigned to either the Sort or No Sort Condition. While clustering levels for children in the Sort Condition were significantly greater than those of children in the No Sort Condition both had high overall levels of clustering. First grade children's organizational styles during sorting, were significantly more associative than were fourth or seventh graders, who increasingly organized taxonomically. These results suggest that it is not that young children are incapable of using effective organizational strategies to mediate recall, but rather, that their strategies differ from those of older children and adults.
Identifier: 14092 (digitool), FADT14092 (IID), fau:10906 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1981.
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Subject(s): Memory in children
Recollection (Psychology)
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