Abstract
Children of 5, 6 and 7 years participated in this experiment which was designed to test the hypothesis that memory and perception are functionally undifferentiated in young children. The Ss in each age group were divided into 3 subgroups for 3 different task conditions of MM, LL and ML: In MM, children were assigned memory tasks at both 1st and 2nd stages; and attention tasks in LL. In ML, children were given memory tasks at 1st stage and attention tasks at 2nd stage, The result obtained supported the hypothesis: 5-year-old children showed the same level of recall through 3 conditions, 6-year-old children tended to recall more items under MM than LL, and 7-year-old children recalled more items under MM than either ML or LL in the 2nd stage.
