Production deficiencies in free recall: A comparison of hyperactive, learning-disabled, and normal children
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Vol. 15 (3) , 429-440
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00916459
Abstract
Free recall of weakly categorizable words was compared in hyperactive (ADDH), reading-disabled, and normal boys. During a baseline trial, hyperactive boys recalled fewer words and showed less category organization than both reading-disabled and normal boys. Following a manipulation designed to encourage semantic encoding of words, hyperactive boys showed an immediate improvement in item recall and organization so that their free-recall performance was similar to that of reading-disabled and normal children. During later trials of a multiple-trial format, hyperactive boys recalled fewer words than did the reading-disabled and normal boys, despite maintaining equality in category organization. Rather than lacking the skill to use semantic organization as a strategy in free recall, hyperactive boys had difficulty in spontaneously generating the organizational strategy in response to instructions to remember and sustaining sufficient effort to task completion.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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