Effect of degree and location of intra-pair similarity upon paired-associate...
AbstractA systematic increase in rate of acquisition of a paired-associate list was demonstrated as the degree to which formal similarity between stimulus and response items was located within, rather...
View ArticleFree recall of successive lists: Effect of category size and category repetition
AbstractSubjects classified and recalled four successive word lists, each of which contained six obvious categories. Three categories were repeated in every list. Words from nonrepeated categories were...
View ArticleThe importance of the within-trial interval in the superiority of the recall...
AbstractThe magnitude of the difference between the recall and anticipation methods of paired-associate learning was shown to increase as the length of the within-trial interval increased in the recall...
View ArticleThe within-list distributed practice effect: Tests of the varied context and...
AbstractThe present studies provided separate tests of the varied context and varied encoding hypotheses of the MP-DP effect. The investigation of varied encoding used an incidental learning procedure...
View ArticleDepth of processing: When the principle of congruity fails
AbstractTwo factors, level of processing (Craik & Lockhart, 1972) and congruity (Schulman, 1974), known to have large effects on the recall of experimenter-provided responses to questions, were...
View ArticleMemory for product names: The generation effect
AbstractTwo studies were performed using ads constructed so that a listener would tend to generate the product name once during the ad. Under conditions approximating normal listening conditions,...
View ArticleMemory for unique personal events: The roommate study
AbstractMemory for naturally occurring episodic events was measured along with memory for the date of occurrence of those events. The effect of rehearsal was also measured. Participants in the...
View ArticleDiary-keeping as a sex-role behavior
AbstractTwo surveys on diary-keeping were conducted in a young adult population. The data showed that many more women than men kept diaries. However, an equal proportion of male and female...
View ArticleMemory for unique personal events: Effects of pleasantness
AbstractCollege students recorded unique personal events for a 3-month period. At the time of recording, they rated the pleasantness or unpleasantness of the event. Subsequent memory ratings showed no...
View ArticleTelescoping in dating naturally occurring events
AbstractTelescoping effects in date estimation were examined in four diary studies. The data show that substantial telescoping can begin as soon as 8 weeks after an event occurs. These studies also...
View ArticleThe role of language familiarity in voice identification
AbstractFour experiments examined the effects of language characteristics on voice identification. In Experiment 1, monolingual English listeners identified bilinguals’ voices much betterwhenthey spoke...
View ArticleThe use of partial temporal information in dating personal events
AbstractThe use of different types of partial temporal information is shown to affect dating accuracy and the distribution of errors in event dating. Several different types of partial temporal...
View ArticleThe Impact of Differing Memory Domains on Event-Dating Processes in Self and...
AbstractThe subjective impression that many of us have when we attempt to provide accurate dates for autobiographical events is that it is a very difficult task. This personal subjective experience is...
View ArticleReconstructive memory in the dating of personal and public news events
AbstractTwo experiments investigated memory for the dates of events selected and recorded by subjects in diaries. In Experiment 1, personal events and public news events were compared, with retention...
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