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Vachon, Francois; Hughes, Robert W.; Jones, Dylan M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
The role of memory in behavioral distraction by auditory attentional capture was investigated: We examined whether capture is a product of the novelty of the capturing event (i.e., the absence of a recent memory for the event) or its violation of learned expectancies on the basis of a memory for an event structure. Attentional capture--indicated…
Descriptors: Evidence, Expectation, Recall (Psychology), Auditory Stimuli
Battig, William F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
Previous puzzling inconsistencies in results of experimental comparisions of paired-associate anticipation with recall (study-test) methods are indicated by Izawa's 1971 data to reflect longer inter- and/or intratrial intervals in experiments showing marked superiority of the recall method. (Editor)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Expectation, Experimental Psychology