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ERIC Number: EJ134929
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1975
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Memory for Orientation of Forms as a Function of Their Meaningfulness and Complexity
Mandler, Jean M.; Day, Jeanne
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 20, 3, 430-443, Dec 75
Accuracy of memory for left-right orientation of single forms varying in meaningfulness and complexity was studied in 120 subjects at 5 age levels from kindergarten to adulthood. Complexity was found to be unimportant, but orientation of meaningful figures was remembered better than orientation of non-meaningful figures at all ages. (GO)
Descriptors: Attention, College Students, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Pattern Recognition, Pictorial Stimuli, Recall (Psychology), Space Orientation, Symmetry
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Identifiers: Meaningfulness