Taxonomic Organization in Immediate and Delayed Recognition Memory

The effects of organization and taxonomic frequency were examined on both an immediate and a one-week delayed recognition test following a single trial of practice. Lists of semantically related words were presented either randomly or blocked by category. Compared with random presentation, organizat...

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Published in:The American journal of psychology 1984-04, Vol.97 (1), p.97-107
Main Authors: Toglia, Michael P., Barrett, Terry R., Lovelace, Eugene A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Analysis of variance
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Conditioning
Experimental psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Learning. Memory
Memory
Memory recall
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Recognition memory
Verbal learning
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Summary:The effects of organization and taxonomic frequency were examined on both an immediate and a one-week delayed recognition test following a single trial of practice. Lists of semantically related words were presented either randomly or blocked by category. Compared with random presentation, organization (blocking) produced higher confidence ratings on the immediate test and resulted in better recognition memory on the delayed test. Taxonomic frequency did not affect performance on the delayed test. When tested immediately, subjects recognized low-frequency words better than high-frequency words; however, this typical word-frequency effect was observed only in the random condition. The overall pattern of results is compatible with recent versions of generate-recognize models of recognition memory. An interpretation of the present findings is offered in terms of the likelihood that memory nodes are tagged with associated list-marker elements.
ISSN:0002-9556
1939-8298
DOI:10.2307/1422550