The Influence of Schooling On Adult Recall of Familiar Stimuli: A Study in Ghana
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 16 (1), 59-71
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00207598108247403
Abstract
Several studies have shown the influence of schooling on a variety of cognitive skills. However, since the tasks employed were nearly always derived from the school setting, such findings provide no adequate answer to the following question: given a cognitive task with which schooled and unschooled subjects have had equal experience, does schooling still have an effect? Opposing views are held about this question, and the aim of the present study was to contribute towards answering it.Keywords
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