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Minimal support for the Genevan hypothesis that memory of stimuli is often dependent upon the operational schemes that underlie the cognition of those stimuli was found. Specifically, number conservation and not length or amount conservation was found to be significantly related to recall and recognition of the conservation stimuli. The relationship was due to nonconservers’ retention failures and not to conservers’ ability to remember correctly. Sedation and water-level performance was related to recall of the appropriate stimuli. Ninety-two first and second graders of average intelligence were studied.
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Murray, F.B., Bausell, R.B. Memory and conservation. Psychon Sci 21, 334–335 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335810
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