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ERIC Number: EJ377061
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Mental Effort and Elaboration: A Developmental Analysis.
Kee, Daniel W.; Davies, Leslie
Contemporary Educational Psychology, v13 n3 p221-28 Jul 1988
Dual task procedures (finger tapping and associative memory) were used to examine developmental differences in the amount of mental effort required to deploy rehearsal and elaboration. Sixth-grade and college students participated. Some evidence for a developmental difference in mental effort was found. (TJH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Development, College Students, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Memory
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Elaboration Theory; Rehearsal (Memory)