Abstract
SARVER, GARY S.; HOWLAND, ANN; and MCMANUs, TIMOTHY. Effects of Age and Stimulus Presentation Rate on Immediate and Delayed Recall in Children. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1976, 47, 452-458. The present study was designed to investigate the effects of stimulus presentation rate on recall and primacyrecency effects in children. A modification of the Digit Span task used in the Binet and Wechsler Intelligence Scales provided the basic memory task administered to 36 male schoolchildren in first, third, and fifth grades, The specific design required children to recall verbally serial strings of digits presented at various stimulus presentation rates. It was assumed that effective recall would be a function of general maturation and/or the development of cognitive strategies, and rate of stimulus presentation. Age, rate, and age x rate x recall condition (short or long term) were all significantly related to the number of digits correctly recalled. Results indicated that the traditional interpretation of the primacy effect as reflecting long-term memory store may not be valid.
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