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Ozubko, Jason D.; Joordens, Steve – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The pseudoword effect is the finding that pseudowords (i.e., rare words or pronounceable nonwords) give rise to more hits and false alarms than words. Using the retrieving effectively from memory (REM) model of recognition memory, we tested a familiarity-based account of the pseudoword effect: Specifically, the pseudoword effect arises because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Familiarity, Word Recognition
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Ozubko, Jason D.; MacLeod, Colin M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
The production effect is the substantial benefit to memory of having studied information aloud as opposed to silently. MacLeod, Gopie, Hourihan, Neary, and Ozubko (2010) have explained this enhancement by suggesting that a word studied aloud acquires a distinctive encoding record and that recollecting this record supports identifying a word…
Descriptors: Prediction, Memory, Experiments, Coding