Remembering 'primed' words: The effect of prime encoding demands.
| Autor: | Collins RN; McMaster University., Rosner TM; McMaster University., Milliken B; McMaster University. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale [Can J Exp Psychol] 2018 Mar; Vol. 72 (1), pp. 9-23. |
| DOI: | 10.1037/cep0000138 |
| Abstrakt: | Rosner, Lopez-Benitez, D'Angelo, Thomson, and Milliken (2017) reported a novel recognition memory effect using an immediate repetition method during the study phase. During each trial of an incidental study phase, participants named a target word that followed a prime word that had the same identity (repeated trials) or a different identity (not-repeated trials). Recognition in the following test phase was better for the not-repeated trials. In the present study, we examined the influence of prime encoding demands on this counterintuitive effect. In Experiment 1, we instructed 1 group to simply ignore the prime, as in the original study. A second group completed a divided attention task on prime presentation. Recognition memory was better for not-repeated than repeated words in both groups. In Experiment 2, encoding of the prime varied across 3 groups: 1 group named each prime, a second group counted the vowels in each prime, and a third group made a semantic discrimination for each prime. Recognition was better for repeated than for not-repeated words in the semantic group and did not differ across conditions for the other 2 groups. Finally, in Experiment 3, we assessed memory for not-repeated primes in addition to memory for targets (as in Experiments 1 and 2). The results confirmed that poor memory for the primes plays a significant role in producing the previously described effects. The results are discussed in relation to transient processing adaptations that affect memory encoding. (PsycINFO Database Record ((c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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