Recall and Recognition of Pictures by Children as a Function of Organization and of Distractor Similarity [electronic resource] / Jean M. Mandler and Nancy L. Stein.
Verbal description, recall, and recognition of complex meaningful pictures by children were studied, varying amount of stimuli and similarity of distractors. Across subjects (sex, ethnic group, and grade level) verbal measures were poor predictors of recognition accuracy. Across stimuli, amount reca...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Verbal description, recall, and recognition of complex meaningful pictures by children were studied, varying amount of stimuli and similarity of distractors. Across subjects (sex, ethnic group, and grade level) verbal measures were poor predictors of recognition accuracy. Across stimuli, amount recalled and recognition accuracy were both related to amount of organization. Recognition was also a function of the type of transformations on the target that were used as distractors. For all transformations there was a close match between ability to recognize a transformation and judgment of dissimilarity of the transformation to the target. The TORSCA multidimensional scaling technique was applied to the similarity judgments to obtain a representation of a memory space for the targets and their transformations. The structure of this space was highly consistent across subjects and indicated that transformations on meaningful pictures can be related to each other in stable ways. (Author) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED075075. Sponsoring Agency: San Diego Unified School District, CA. Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Mental Health (DHEW), Bethesda, MD. |
| Physical Description: | 35 p. |