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DEVELOPMENTAL DIFFERENCES IN ORGANIZATIONAL CRITERIA IN FREE RECALL
- Date Issued:
- 1981
- 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.
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 |
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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 |
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Subject(s): |
Memory in children Recollection (Psychology) |
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Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14092 | |
Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |