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Socio-economic status, social class and memory performance: a critical response to Herrmann and Guadagno (1997)

✍ Scribed by John T. E. Richardson

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
189 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0888-4080

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✦ Synopsis

Herrmann and Guadagno (1997) reviewed evidence concerning the relationship between memory performance and socio-economic status (SES). As a measure of social strati®cation, SES is narrow and ethnocentric, and it ignores the role of social prestige, power and status. The selection of research for quantitative analysis and the measure of eect size used by Herrmann and Guadagno are criticized. Across the available corpus of studies, there is a highly signi®cant relationship between SES and memory performance, but this varies systematically from one task to another and between dierent research studies using the same task. This indicates that the eects of SES on memory are mediated by the content and the context of learning.

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