This study was conducted to examine the memory for coins of 7-yr.-old children and junior college students. Subjects in the free-recall group were asked to draw a coin from memory. Those in the cued-recall group used another coin as a retrieval cue to draw a coin. Analysis showed that students recalled significantly more distinctive features than children, but there were no significant differences on common and covariant features recalled by students and children. These results suggest that adults have elaborated schemata with more distinctive features for coins than do children.
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