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Davis, Danielle K.; Abrams, Lise – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
When people read questions like "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?", many mistakenly answer "2" despite knowing that Noah sailed the ark. This "Moses illusion" occurs when names share semantic features. Two experiments examined whether shared "visual" concepts (facial features)…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Semantics, Visual Stimuli, Interference (Learning)
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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)
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Jones, John L.; Kaschak, Michael P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Locating a target in a visual search task is facilitated when the target location is repeated on successive trials. Global statistical properties also influence visual search, but have often been confounded with local regularities (i.e., target location repetition). In two experiments, target locations were not repeated for four successive trials,…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Experimental Psychology, Task Analysis, Experiments