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Adaptive Memory: Animacy Enhances Free Recall but Impairs Cued Recall
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Popp, Earl Y.; Serra, Michael J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Recent research suggests that human memory systems evolved to remember animate things better than inanimate things. In the present experiments, we examined whether these effects occur for both free recall and cued recall. In Experiment 1, we directly compared the effect of animacy on free recall and cued recall. Participants studied lists of…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Memory, Recall (Psychology), Cues
Is Performance in Task-Cuing Experiments Mediated by Task Set Selection or Associative Compound Retrieval?
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Forrest, Charlotte L. D.; Monsell, Stephen; McLaren, Ian P. L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Task-cuing experiments are usually intended to explore control of task set. But when small stimulus sets are used, they plausibly afford learning of the response associated with a combination of cue and stimulus, without reference to tasks. In 3 experiments we presented the typical trials of a task-cuing experiment: a cue (colored shape) followed,…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Cues, Visual Stimuli, Color
Effects of Task and Category Membership on Representation Stability
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Gaillard, Audrey; Urdapilleta, Isabel; Houix, Olivier; Manetta, Celine – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2011
This study examined the within-subject stability of 150 participants who performed both a sorting task and a property-generation task over multiple sessions, focusing on three concrete concept categories (food, animals and bathroom products). We hypothesized that (1) the within-subject stability would be higher in the sorting task than in the…
Descriptors: Classification, Hypothesis Testing, Concept Formation, Experimental Psychology
Test-Enhanced Learning of Natural Concepts: Effects on Recognition Memory, Classification, and Metacognition
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Jacoby, Larry L.; Wahlheim, Christopher N.; Coane, Jennifer H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Three experiments examined testing effects on learning of natural concepts and metacognitive assessments of such learning. Results revealed that testing enhanced recognition memory and classification accuracy for studied and novel exemplars of bird families on immediate and delayed tests. These effects depended on the balance of study and test…
Descriptors: Testing, Metacognition, Recognition (Psychology), Classification
A Core Knowledge Architecture of Visual Working Memory
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Wood, Justin N. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Visual working memory (VWM) is widely thought to contain specialized buffers for retaining spatial and object information: a "spatial-object architecture." However, studies of adults, infants, and nonhuman animals show that visual cognition builds on core knowledge systems that retain more specialized representations: (1) spatiotemporal…
Descriptors: Evidence, Architecture, Infants, Short Term Memory
What Comparative Psychology Is About.
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Dewsbury, Donald A. – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Urges the inclusion of comparative psychology in the undergraduate curriculum. Defines zoological or comparative psychology as a field that explores the behavior patterns and minds of many animal species and the genesis, control, and consequences of a range of behavioral patterns. Traces the history and development of the discipline. Discusses…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Animals, Behavior Development, Cognitive Processes