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Recall and organization in five year old children
Author(s) -
Davies Graham,
Brown Lindsay
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1978.tb01665.x
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , cued recall , free recall , recall test , developmental psychology , cluster analysis , memorization , mediation , cognitive psychology , statistics , mathematics , political science , law
This study is concerned with the actual and potential memorizing strategies available to five year old children. Forty‐eight children observed 20 objects drawn from five different categories. A factorial design was employed with two conditions of presentation (blocked/random) combined with two conditions of recall (cued/uncued). Both blocking and cueing produced significant effects upon recall and clustering, blocking affecting within‐category recall while cueing had its main effect on the number of categories sampled. Subjects who received a combination of random presentation and uncued recall showed low levels of clustering and little relationship between clustering and recall. It was concluded that five year olds suffer from production deficiency rather than mediation deficiency.