Cognitive prerequisites for generative learning: why some learning strategies are more effective than others
- This study examined age‐related differences in the effectiveness of two generative learning strategies (GLSs). Twenty‐five children aged 9–11 and 25 university students aged 17–29 performed a facts learning task in which they had to generate either a prediction or an example before seeing the correct result. We found a significant Age × Learning Strategy interaction, with children remembering more facts after generating predictions rather than examples, whereas both strategies were similarly effective in adults. Pupillary data indicated that predictions stimulated surprise, whereas the effectiveness of example‐based learning correlated with children’s analogical reasoning abilities. These findings suggest that there are different cognitive prerequisites for different GLSs, which results in varying degrees of strategy effectiveness by age.
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| Author: | Jasmin Breitwieser, Garvin BrodORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-564874 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13393 |
| ISSN: | 1467-8624 |
| Parent Title (German): | Child Development 2020, doi:10.1111/cdev.13393, ISSN 1467-8624 |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Place of publication: | Malden, Mass. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/07/16 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/07/16 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/12/06 |
| Volume: | 2020 |
| Page Number: | 15 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 476899710 |
| Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie |
| Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
