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Free recall and subjective organization were studied with children in Grades 3, 5, and 7. Each S was presented with 10 trials on each of four different sets of associatively unrelated line drawings of common objects. Recall increased with age level, but subjective organization increased only slightly. There was some evidence of learning to learn effects for recall but not for subjective organization. Recall and subjective organization were correlated for Ss of Grades 5 and 7 but not 3. The absolute amounts of subjective organization were relatively small for all age groups.
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Supported by a grant from the University of Hawaii Research Council and presented, in part, at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Santa Monica, Calif., March 1969. We are grateful for the assistance of: Jeanette Crouch, experimenter; H. Izumo and staff of Noelani Elementary School; D. R. Leech and staff of Stevenson Intermediate School; the University of Hawaii Statistical and Computer Center for computer time; Craig S. Kowalski for data analysis.
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Shapiro, S.I., Moely, B.E. Free recall, subjective organization, and learning to learn at three age levels. Psychon Sci 23, 189–191 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336070
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336070