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Title
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CHILDREN'S CUED-RECALL OF CHILD- AND ADULT-DEFINED TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL CATEGORY EXEMPLARS.
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Creator
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THOMPSON, BARBARA ELAINE, Florida Atlantic University
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Abstract/Description
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Kindergarten, third, and sixth graders received one of two 22 item lists for cued-recall, with one-half of the items in each list being typical examples of familiar categories, and onehalf heing atypical category exemplars. For subjects in the Age-Appropriate condition, the typicality of the items was based on children's definitions of "item goodness," whereas for subjects in the Adult-Norm condition, item typicality was based on adult judgements. At all grade levels, typical items were...
Show moreKindergarten, third, and sixth graders received one of two 22 item lists for cued-recall, with one-half of the items in each list being typical examples of familiar categories, and onehalf heing atypical category exemplars. For subjects in the Age-Appropriate condition, the typicality of the items was based on children's definitions of "item goodness," whereas for subjects in the Adult-Norm condition, item typicality was based on adult judgements. At all grade levels, typical items were recalled to a greater extent than atypical items, and recall in the Age-Appropriate condition was significantly greater than in the Adult-Norm condition. In the Age-Appropriate condition, processing differences between typical and atypical category exemplars were interpreted as being due to qualitative differences in how representative items were of their categories, whereas the "typicality" effects in the Adult Norm condition were hypothesized as being due to a quantitative lack of category knowledge.
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Date Issued
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1980
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14025
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Subject Headings
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Recollection (Psychology), Memory in children
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Format
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Document (PDF)
