A visual matching task was administered under simultaneous and successive conditions to 2 groups of 4th grade children. The purposes of the study were (a) to compare the relative difficulty of the two conditions, (b) to analyze position preferences under the two conditions, and (c) to investigate sex differences in performance. The successive condition was significantly more difficult than the simultaneous condition. There were significant position preferences under the successive condition but not under the simultaneous condition. There were no sex differences. It was hypothesized that serial position preferences were due both to interference effects and to the forced-choice format of the task.
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