Verbal and spatial short-term memory: Common sources of developmental change?
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Memory span is usually assessed for verbal items such as letters, words and digits, but span can also be assessed for sequences of spatial locations. Alternative accounts of the development of verbal and spatial span are considered, and it is argued that a procedure used by Salthouse (1994a 1994b) can be adapted to facilitate their evaluation. The procedure was applied to the analysis of data on the correlates of verbal and spatial span in primary-school children.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1999
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Induction of relational schemas: common processes in reasoning and complex learning
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Experiments were conducted to examine whether subjects could induce relational schemas from specific instances. Results demonstrate that participants could influence the induction of relational schemas from relational instances regardless of the kind of format used. Findings also suggest the features of relational schemas which includes the prediction of unseen items, transfer between isomorphs, analog coding, omni-directional access and reversal shift.
Publication Name: Cognitive Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0010-0285
Year: 1998
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To matrix, network, or hierarchy: that is the question
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A structural analysis of three spatial diagrams is presented and tested through a study of college students' choice of diagram type to organize information given in short scenarios. Matrices, networks and hierarchies are the spatial diagrams analyzed.
Publication Name: Cognitive Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0010-0285
Year: 2001
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