140 fourth grade children and 80 adults were tested for free recall of pictures or the corresponding words. Half the Ss had an immediate recall test, half a 48-hr. delayed test. There was no difference in over-all recall of pictures or words, but correlations and intrusion errors did suggest different processing strategies.
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