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Sources of Interference in Recognition Testing
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Annis, Jeffrey; Malmberg, Kenneth J.; Criss, Amy H.; Shiffrin, Richard M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Recognition memory accuracy is harmed by prior testing (a.k.a., output interference [OI]; Tulving & Arbuckle, 1966). In several experiments, we interpolated various tasks between recognition test trials. The stimuli and the tasks were more similar (lexical decision [LD] of words and nonwords) or less similar (gender identification of male and…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Memory, Accuracy, Interference (Learning)
The Shape of Things to Come: Evaluating Word Frequency as a Continuous Variable in Recognition Memory
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Hemmer, Pernille; Criss, Amy H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
The role of experience in memory, specifically the word frequency (WF) mirror effect showing higher hit rates and lower false alarm rates for low-frequency words, is one of the hallmarks of memory. However, this "regularity of memory" is limited because normative WF has been treated as discrete (low vs. high). We evaluate the extent to…
Descriptors: Experience, Memory, Word Frequency, Experimental Psychology