The objective of this study was to investigate age difference in the processing of category label information. Three age groups in children and one adult age group were used to investigate the amounts of recall of items by age, priming and category ty...
The objective of this study was to investigate age difference in the processing of category label information. Three age groups in children and one adult age group were used to investigate the amounts of recall of items by age, priming and category typicality.
The more the age, the more the amount of recall of items, and typical items were recalled to a great extent than atypical items,. Primed items were recalled much more than unprimed items. Priming effect in 3 older groups were significant but in kindergarten group not significant. In primed condition typical items were recalled more than atypical items, but in unprimed condition there is no typicality effect. There is no 3-way interaction effect by age, priming, and typicality.
The major interest of this study was to investigate whether there is the ge difference in the processing of category label information when age difference of internal structure of category and stimulus encoding time is controlled.
The results of this study mean that when age difference of knowledge basis and other variable is controlled the age difference is occurred by priming or not priming but there is no age difference in the processing of typicality. The results were discussed in therms of self-generating category representation and the number of the exemplar of the related category as a dimension of categorical processing of priming and typicality