Recognition of a categorized list
Journal of Experimental Psychology (1972)
- DOI: 10.1037/h0033500
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Abstract
Considers that failures to find an effect of taxonomic organization on recognition may have been due to low degrees of list learning. 6 male and 6 female undergraduates learned lists containing 15 instances of each of 4 categories to 95% recall. Double-word displays (DWDs) were then drawn from the lists so that DWDs contained words from 1 category (1C) or 2 (2C). Recognition latency was shorter for 1C DWDs than for 2C DWDs. Faster reading of 1C DWDs or more complicated memory search processes for 2C DWDs are alternative explantions for the effect, but category organization clearly affected the accessibility of information in memory. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA
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