Extension of a Theory of Predictive Behavior to Immediate Recall by Preschool Children.
Richard S. Bogartz · 1965
Note14p EDRS Price mr-san HC-50.80 Descriptors-Learning Processes. Mathematical Models. Memory. Preciction, Preschool Children, Prthability. Recall (Psychological). *Retentien This paper is concerned with memory functions in sequentially structured behavior. Twenty-five 4and 5-year-old preschool children participated in a prediction experiment in which a stack of cards (each card alternately having a patch of red or green tape on it) was displayed to the child The child was presented with a card and asked to predict the color on the next card. Two interval lengths. a long and a short. were used between presentation and prediction. The sublect's performance. it was t t. was affected by (1) memory of each trial. (2) effects of the previous res_ponsiel.°(thlagging of attention. (4) guessing. and (5) the variation in interval length. The results from 100 trials indicated that the ixobability of an error. given a correct response on the previous trial, is greater following the long interval than following the short. It was also found that the probability of an error. given a correct response is less than or equal to both the probability of a correct response. given an error. and the probability of an error. given an error. The theoretical basis of this task is being used to develop a recall task similar in form to the predction