DOES INDUCTIVE REASONING FOSTER THE ACQUI SITION OF THE MEMORY STRATEGY OF CLUSTERING

Two second classes of a primary school which were comparable to each o ther with respect to relevant variables, participated in a quasi-exper iment. Whereas one class received a training to reason inductively, th e other was given an attentional training. After that, both classes we re instructed to use the memory strategy of categorizing or clustering . The reasoning training led to higher performance with Cattell's CFT as well as with the three memory variables, both immediately after ins truction and ten weeks later. Actually, the effect of the reasoning tr aining on the memory variables had even increased ten weeks later.