Semantic and imaginal factors in learning as related to age

Imagery and Children’s Learning: Putting the Picture in Developmental Perspective

“…Although early experiments (Horvitz & Levin, 1972; Eoff & Rohwer, Note 6) indicated that 7-and 8-year-old children could not generate pictorial elaborations of verbal materials, several recent studies (Begg & Anderson, 1976;Kemler & Juczyk, 1975;Pressley & Levin, 1977) have convincingly demonstrated that first-and second-grade children can gainfully apply the imagery strategy when provided with verbal materials to pictorially elaborate.…”

Imagery in paired- associate learning in 5-year-old children

“…Results from other studies concentrating on a different age group (preschoolers) could not be interpreted as to the greater effectiveness of either imaginal or verbal processes (Horvitz & Levin, 1972;Reese, 1965Reese, , 1970a. Rohwer (1970) defines a transition period from the use of verbal to visual storage mechanisms as occurring at about the age of 4~ to 5 years.…”