Sorting-recall behaviors exhibited by reflective and impulsive children : an individual differences investigation of developmental memory
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Kathryn Ann Summers (Creator)
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- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
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- Garrett Lange
Abstract: The present study examined individual differences exhibited by reflective and impulsive school-age children, at each of two grade levels, with regard to their efficiency in constructing organizational schemes during a pre-recall sorting period, and their spontaneous tendencies to carry over these schemes into free recall. Ninety-three children of average intellectual ability free grades one and four were administered the Matching Familiar Figures Test in order to identify 12 reflective children and 12 impulsive children at each of grade levels one and four. These 48 children were administered the experimental sorting and recall task. The pre-recall sorting task consisted of grouping pictures the subject deemed went together the best. Sorting trials continued until the subject reached a stable sorting scheme on two successive trials, or until he had completed six trials. At the end of the last sorting trial, a distractor task was administered, after which the subject was asked to freely recall the items. Following the free recall task, categories were reconstructed to obtain the subjects' sorting rationale.
Sorting-recall behaviors exhibited by reflective and impulsive children : an individual differences investigation of developmental memory
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- Language: English
- Date: 1975