GIFTEDNESS AND VARIABILITY IN STRATEGIC PROCESSING ON A MULTITRIAL MEMORY TASK: EVIDENCE FORSTABILITY IN GIFTED COGNITION THOMASR.COYLE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO LENOREE.READ PURDUE UNIVERSITY JANEF.GAULTNEY UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE DAVID F.BJORKLUND FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY ABSTRACT: This study examined strategic variability and variability-perfor- mance relations in intellectually gifted (mean IQ = 142.31; n = 85) and non-gifted (mean IQ = 112.44; n = 81) children who received five trials on an organizational memory task. Children were presented with different sets of categorizable words (e.g., boat, bus, car, banana, apple, orange) on each trial and were asked to re- Direct all correspondence to: Thomas R. Coyle, Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, or to David F. Bjorklund, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431. E-mail, Thomas Ft. Coyle at tcoyleQutsa.edu or David F. Bjorklund at dbjorklund@fau.edu. Learning and Individual Differences, Volume 10, Number 4.1998, pages 273-290. Copyright 0 1999 by Elsevier Science Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. ISSN: 1041-6080