Date of Award
1980
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
Kindergarten, third, and sixth graders received one of two 22 item lists for cued-recall, with one-half of the items in each list being typical examples of familiar categories, and onehalf heing atypical category exemplars. For subjects in the Age-Appropriate condition, the typicality of the items was based on children's definitions of "item goodness," whereas for subjects in the Adult-Norm condition, item typicality was based on adult judgements. At all grade levels, typical items were recalled to a greater extent than atypical items, and recall in the Age-Appropriate condition was significantly greater than in the Adult-Norm condition. In the Age-Appropriate condition, processing differences between typical and atypical category exemplars were interpreted as being due to qualitative differences in how representative items were of their categories, whereas the "typicality" effects in the Adult Norm condition were hypothesized as being due to a quantitative lack of category knowledge.
Extent
104 p.
Recommended Citation
THOMPSON, BARBARA ELAINE, "CHILDREN'S CUED-RECALL OF CHILD- AND ADULT-DEFINED TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL CATEGORY EXEMPLARS" (1980). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989. 4.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_3/4
Identifier
FADT14025
Comments
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1980.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1980.