Free recall, subjective organization, and learning to learn at three age levels

Free recall and subjective organization were studied with children in Grades 3, 5, and 7. Each S was presented with 10 trials on each of four different sets of associatively unrelated line drawings of common objects. Recall increased with age level, but subjective organization increased only slightly. There was some evidence of learning to learn effects for recall but not for subjective organization. Recall and subjective organization were correlated for Ss of Grades 5 and 7 but not 3. The absolute amounts of subjective organization were relatively small for all age groups.