... children do not use memory strategies. The young group failed to organise the data, as the mature group did to improve their memory retrieval. The purpose of this experiment was to find out if a difference in memory performance exists between young and old participants to see whether young children will employ organisational memory strategies, and to see if this is reflected in the experimental results. This will be done by measuring the memory response of young and mature participants, in relation to organised and unorganised presentation of data. The aim was to prove the notion that organisation of the pictures will result in the improvement of memory performance, particularly in the younger group. This report will explain the difference between memory recall of adults and children. As age increases ones' memory ability goes through significant changes. Generally, a seven year old has not learnt to rehearse information ...

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