Culture and Memory Revisited: An Example from Buganda

Authors

Richard B. Pollnac, University of Rhode Island
Gretchen Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

1-1-1976

Abstract

The free recall of words among several samples of Baganda schoolchildren are examined in light of recent studies conducted in Africa and elsewhere. Quantitative and qualitative differences in free recall within a specific age-education group suggest that there is interschool variability in some component of the educational process related to memory skills. It is thus suggested that years of education must be more carefully defined in cross-cultural studies of cognition. © 1976, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volume

7

Issue

1

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Pollnac, Richard B., and Gretchen Jahn. "Culture and Memory Revisited: An Example from Buganda." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 7, 1 (1976). doi: 10.1177/002202217671006.