Date of Award

Summer 1988

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Psychology

Program/Concentration

Psychology

Committee Director

Elaine M. Justice

Committee Member

Raymond H. Kirby

Committee Member

Barry Gillen

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.P65H45

Abstract

This study investigated strategic use and metamemory concerning taxonomic, associative, and perceptual organizational strategies. Preschool and third grade children were asked to sort stimuli which varied orthogonally along three dimensions; taxonomically, associatively, and perceptually. Free recall was assessed. Each child also completed one of two metamemory tasks; a paired comparison or a peer teaching task. The order of the memory/metamemory tasks was counterbalanced within age groups. The results showed that older children sorted by taxonomic and associative attributes while younger children exhibited no sorting preference. Older children recalled significantly more pictures, although no significant age differences in recall clustering were found. Third graders judged the associative strategy as more effective than sorting taxonomically, whereas younger children did not discriminate among any of the organizational strategies. In the peer teaching conditions, third graders provided significantly more taxonomic and assoc1ative examples than preschoolers. The two metamemory tasks affected subsequent sorting preferences differently with those performing the pa1red comparison task sorting significantly more by color, while subjects who did the peer teaching task sorted by associative criteria. Finally, encoding by taxonomic and associat1ve criteria was found to be related to taxonomic and associat1ve recall clustering scores. Sorting by association, and associative clustering scores were related to the number of associative examples provided during peer teaching. The implicat1ons of the peer teaching task as a relatively new method of metamemory assessment are discussed.

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DOI

10.25777/623q-r632

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