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Direct linkHicks, Jason L.; Marsh, Richard L.; Cook, Gabriel I. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
The authors conducted 3 experiments investigating the effect of context variability and word frequency on free recall. Context variability refers to the number of preexperimental contexts in which a given word is experienced. Both between-subjects and within-subjects manipulations of context variability demonstrated a distinct advantage for low…
Descriptors: Experiments, Context Effect, Recall (Psychology), Experimental Psychology
Starns, Jeffrey J.; Hicks, Jason L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
In 3 experiments, the authors determined whether remembering a source dimension created a more complete internal reinstatement of the encoded event and thus cued access to other source dimensions. Results consistently showed that memory for the 2 source dimensions was correlated: correct responses on 1 dimension were typically associated with…
Descriptors: Cues, Responses, Memory, Experiments
