| Abstract: | Reports 2 experiments in which the object-referent and dimension-referent response sets identified from the word association data of children were used to investigate the basis for false recognition errors by kindergartners and by 2nd and 6th grade Ss (n = 32 each). Word association data from these Ss were consistent with previous findings, validating the developmental changes in the dominant dimensions of associative organization. The false recognition data involving object-referent associations paralleled the word association data, but the results for dimension-referent associations did not. Instead, kindergartners made more errors to dimension-referent than to object-referent associates, and there was a significant decrease in the number of errors to both types of associates with increasing age. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
