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S G Paris

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PubMed1978

Operativity and reversibility in children's understanding of pictorial sequences.

The role of reversibility in children's comprehension and memory for sequences of pictures was investigated. Bidirectionality in the ability to remember and infer antecedents and consequences was assessed. Preschoolers were significantly more accurate at identifying consequences of portrayed events than the antecedents. Kindergartners and older children correctly identified beginnings and endings of sequences with equal proficiency. This developmental shift from relatively unidirectional to reversible comprehension was observed both on trials involving figurative memory and operative inference judgments.

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PubMed1976

Efficiency of self-generated elaborations by EMR and nonretarded children.

Paired-associates learning tasks were given to 24 EMR and 24 nonretarded children. Subjects in each group received instructions to elaborate the noun pairs by embedding them in a sentence, and a qualitative analysis of the elaborations generated by the subjects was conducted by comparing levels of recall associated with the different types of elaboration. Elaborations that were conjunctive in nature, especially those which expressed thematic or functional relationships, were most effective overall. EMR children generated more inefficient elaborations than did nonretarded children.

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