The Effects of Synonym and Antonym Generation on Memory Performance of Elementary School Children (반의어와 유의어의 생성이 초등학생의 기억수행에 미치는 영향)

Eun Hye Cho (조은혜); 최경숙

The Effects of Synonym and Antonym Generation on Memory Performance of Elementary School Children

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2008, 21(2), pp.1-14
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Eun Hye Cho ¹, 최경숙 ¹

¹성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examined the effects of antonym and synonym generation on memory performance of elementary school student. The subjects were first- third- and fifth grade elementary school children. Each subject was shown visually a list of 20 words for 12 second per word via computer. For the antonym generation condition, subjects read aloud target words and generated antonym related target words. For the synonym generation condition, subjects generated synonym and other procedure was identical to those given in antonym generation condition. For the control condition, subjects merely read aloud target words. And then after subjects spent 30 seconds solving digit symbol, they were required to recall target words. Results showed that generation effect increased with grade, and antonym generation was the most useful in the first grade children and synonym generation was supreme effect in the fifth grade children. These results were interpreted in terms of semantic organization.

KEYWORDS

generation, antonym, synonym

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