The picture superiority effect in associative recognition

The picture superiority effect has been well documented in tests of item recognition and recall. The present study shows that the picture superiority effect extends to associative recognition. In three experiments, students studied lists consisting of random pairs of concrete words and pairs of line...

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Published in:Memory & cognition 2008-10, Vol.36 (7), p.1351-1359
Main Author: Hockley, William E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Association Learning
Attention
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Codes
Coding theory
Cognitive Psychology
Discrimination
Discrimination Learning
False alarms
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Learning. Memory
Memory
Mental Recall
Paired-Associate Learning
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Semantics
Studies
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Summary:The picture superiority effect has been well documented in tests of item recognition and recall. The present study shows that the picture superiority effect extends to associative recognition. In three experiments, students studied lists consisting of random pairs of concrete words and pairs of line drawings; then they discriminated between intact (old) and rearranged (new) pairs of words and pictures at test. The discrimination advantage for pictures over words was seen in a greater hit rate for intact picture pairs, but there was no difference in the false alarm rates for the two types of stimuli. That is, there was no mirror effect. The same pattern of results was found when the test pairs consisted of the verbal labels of the pictures shown at study (Experiment 4), indicating that the hit rate advantage for picture pairs represents an encoding benefit. The results have implications for theories of the picture superiority effect and models of associative recognition.
ISSN:0090-502X
1532-5946
DOI:10.3758/MC.36.7.1351