TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schneider, Wolfgang
A1  - Körkel, Joachim
A1  - Weinert, Franz E.
T1  - Domain-Specific Knowledge and Memory Performance: A Comparison of High- and Low-Aptitude Children
N2  - Two studies compared memory performance and text comprehension of groups that were equivalent on domain-specific knowledge but differed in overall aptitude, to investigate whether prior knowledge about a particular domain or overall aptitude level was more important when the task was to acquire and use new information in the domain of interest. Both studies dealt with third-, fifth-, and seventh-grade soccer experts' and novices' memory and comprehension of a story dealing with a soccer game. Several measures of memory performance, memory monitoring, and text comprehension were used. Levels of soccer knowledge and of overall aptitude were varied in a factorial design. Neither study detected significant differences between high-aptitude and low-aptitude experts, regardless of their ages. Low aptitude experts outperformed high-aptitude novices on all memory and comprehension measures. The results indicate that domain-specific knowledge can compensate for low overall aptitude on domain-related cognitive tasks.
KW  - Psychologie
Y1  - 1989
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6089
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-62107
ER  -