Facilitation of serial recall in retarded children and adolescents: verbal and kinesthetic strategies.
The nature of the modality-specific effects of rehearsal training for serial recall was explored. Retarded children and adolescents were trained in either verbal or kinesthetic "cumulative rehearsal--fast finish" strategies for picture recall. Results indicated that both strategies facilitated recall on training tasks and on a transfer-recall test. No age effects or Age X Rehearsal Condition interaction resulted. These results provide support for a general cross-modality recoding explanation of rehearsal effects and suggest that retarded individuals are as capable of mediating picture recall in their sensorimotor system as well as in their verbal-auditory memory system.
D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D007699:Kinesthesis; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D014706:Verbal Learning