Abstract

Summary The experiment reported in this study demonstrated that, when serialposition bias is controlled, preschool children, unlike adults, do not display priority of recall of new items in free-recall learning (FRL). Rather, children of this age respond with a priority of recall of old items, new items being given later in the recall sequence than previously given items. This finding, coupled with that of Battig and Slaybaugh (2), suggests that, in the case of new item learning, FRL of preschool children is subject to the strength principle, whereas FRL of adults is more influenced by strategy use.

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