Effects of orienting task, spacing of repetitions, and list context on judgments of frequency

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Subjects were given an unexpected frequency judgment test following a list of words in which items were presented either two, three, and five times or three, five, and seven times, with a spacing of 0, 2, 16, or 32 items between repetitions. During list presentation, they either rated the imagery value of each word or made continuous frequency estimates. Postlist frequency judgments of words presented three and five times were higher for the list containing words of Frequency 7, and judgments were also higher following the imagery rating task. Continuous judgments were unaffected by the list context and showed different effects of spacing than postlist judgments. The results provide support for the operation of response bias factors in the frequency judgment task and are relevant to theoretical interpretations of the spacing effect. © 1977 Psychonomic Society, Inc.

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Rowe, E. J., & Rose, R. J. (1977). Effects of orienting task, spacing of repetitions, and list context on judgments of frequency. Memory & Cognition, 5(5), 505–512. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197393

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