Abstract
The present study tested 4-, 6-, and 8-year-old children with a forward chaining (A-B, B-C, A-C) mediation paradigm. Each list was comprised of six pictorial stimulus-response pairs. All associations were acquired in the laboratory via a study-test method involving a recognition task on the test trials. The lists were constructed such that positive transfer was expected for two stimulus-response pairs on the third list (mediated facilitation), negative transfer was expected for two other pairs (mediated interference), and neither positive nor negative transfer was expected for the remaining two pairs (control). Analyses of correct responses during List III indicated: (I) positive, but not negative, transfer; and (2) no age differences in positive transfer.
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