DO YOUNG-CHILDREN REHEARSE - AN INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES ANALYSIS
DO YOUNG-CHILDREN REHEARSE - AN INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES ANALYSIS
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DOI:
10.3758/bf03208891
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发表时间:
1994-03-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
HITCH, GJ
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作者:
GATHERCOLE, SE;ADAMS, AM;HITCH, GJ
The issue of whether young children rehearse in auditory memory tasks was investigated across a series of three studies comparing individual differences in articulation rates and memory spans. Applying the principles of the working-memory model, children with faster rates of speaking should have superior memory spans if they engage in rehearsal. Two of the experiments, with 4-year-old children, failed to establish any significant association between articulation rate and memory span, although both the memory span and articulation rate procedures were found to be highly reliable in this age group. A third experiment confirmed that, as expected, articulation rates and memory spans were significantly associated with one another in adult subjects. The results indicate that, contrary to recent theories of children's short-term-memory development, 4-year-old children do not engage in subvocal rehearsal during auditory memory span tasks.