A Cross-Cultural Study of Cognitive Development
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
- Vol. 44 (5) , 1-77
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1165916
Abstract
Recall memory among children from 2 Guatemalan towns and 1 USA city was studied. The age interval of greatest improvement in serial recall of pictures, words and orientations of dolls varied across settings by as much as 4-6 yr, but performance improved with age in all communities. Apparently, the activation of varied strategies to aid recall memory emerged in all children during the preadolescent years, but unspecified environmental factors, determined both the slope of the growth function and its asymptotic level.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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