E. Bates, W. Kintsch, C. Fletcher, Vittoria Giuliani
{"title":"The role of pronominalization and ellipsis in texts: Some memory experiments.","authors":"E. Bates, W. Kintsch, C. Fletcher, Vittoria Giuliani","doi":"10.1037/0278-7393.6.6.676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.6.6.676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory","volume":"200 1","pages":"676-691"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75853940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The feature-positive effect in adult human subjects.","authors":"J Newman, W T Wolff, E Hearst","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous experiments with animals and young children have shown that discriminations based on the presence versus absence of a single feature are learned more easily when the feature appears on reinforced rather than nonreinforced displays. Six experiments demonstrated an analogous effect in college students, across a range of stimulus materials, general procedures, kinds of feedback, pacing of trials, and instructions to the subject. The results were analyzed in terms of the exceptionally strong control of behavior by events that are present on positive trials. These findings have implications for theoretical interpretations of human concept learning and decision making, and offer additional examples of the difficulty organisms experience in using \"nonoccurrence\" as a cue.</p>","PeriodicalId":76919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory","volume":"6 5","pages":"630-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18446601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence against a semantic-episodic distinction.","authors":"John R. Anderson, B. Ross","doi":"10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.441","url":null,"abstract":"The possible empirical bases for the semantic-episodic distinction are examined. Two kinds of results are particularly relevant. The first concerns whether the same functional laws can be demonstrated for semantic as for episodic memory. Failure to demonstrate such generalities argues for the distinction, whereas success at demonstrating generalities argues against the need for such a distinction. The second kind of diagnostic result concerns whether one can demonstrate transfer between semantic and episodic memory. Failure to find transfer argues for a separation, whereas evidence for transfer argues against any real separation between the memories. A review of the literature relevant to these two criteria yields considerable evidence against the semantic-episodic distinction. Three experiments are reported that provide new evidence against the distinction. The experiments test whether learning episodic material interferes with the retrieval of semantic information. The dependent measure was the time to respond true or false to a categorization statement (e.g., \"A spaniel is a dog.\"). Before participating in that task, subjects learned sentences that provided information about the item and category. The results indicated that the time to make the semantic judgment was affected by the item-category relation in the prior study sentences. Generally, the study effects, as well as some other findings, were correctly predicted by the ACT theory, which makes no semantic-episodic distinction. However, contrary to the ACT theory, it was found that learning additional information about a concept does not interfere with making positive semantic memory judgments and possibly facilitates.","PeriodicalId":76919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory","volume":"73 1","pages":"441-466"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84319648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Modes in the Learning of a Complex Rule Structure","authors":"A. Reber, S. Kassin, Selma Lewis, G. Cantor","doi":"10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.492","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory","volume":"35 1","pages":"492-502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72627789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Test-Expectancy and Word-Frequency Effects in Recall and Recognition","authors":"D. Balota, J. H. Neely","doi":"10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.576","url":null,"abstract":"To determine if people who expect a recall (RCL) test encode a list of to-beremembered (TBR) words differently than those who expect a recognition (RON) test, people were first induced to expect a RCL or a RON test and then were asked to remember a critical list consisting of both high-frequency (HF) and low-frequency (LF) words. Following presentation of the critical list, different groups received either an expected RCL test, an unexpected RCL test, an expected RON test, or an unexpected RON test. There were two main results: (a) People who expected RCL did better in both RCL and RON than did people who expected RON, but to a much greater degree for HF than LF words, (b) The standard word-frequency effect was obtained; namely, HF words were better recalled but more poorly recognized than LF words. These data were interpreted within the framework of Anderson and Bower's generaterecognize theory as indicating that, compared to people expecting a RON test, people expecting a RCL test more variably encode the semantic interpretations of the TBR word. The implications that these data have for Glanzer and Bowies' theory of the word-frequency effect and for classroom examinations were also discussed.","PeriodicalId":76919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory","volume":"36 2 1","pages":"576-587"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79903235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reference points in spatial cognition.","authors":"E. Sadalla, W. Burroughs, L. J. Staplin","doi":"10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.516","url":null,"abstract":"The present research investigates the hypothesis that cognitive representations of large scale space contain elements that may be termed reference points, and that these points are used to define the position of adjacent places. The nature and function of reference points is explored in five experiments. Experiments 1 and 2 consist of tasks during which subjects judged the distance between known locations. The subjective distance between reference points and nonreference points was found to be asymmetrical, with the latter ordered in relation to the former. Experiments 3 and 4 employ reaction time tasks in which subjects attempted to verify the distance or direction from an anchor location to target locations. The data indicate that the relative referentiality of anchor and target locations influences verification time. The results of Experiments 1-4 suggest that reference points occur in spatial cognition and that these points provide an organizational structure that facilitates the location of adjacent points in space. Experiment 5 consists of a multiple regression analysis designed to clarify the semantic attributes of spatial reference points.","PeriodicalId":76919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory","volume":"11 1","pages":"516-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89475154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of making a diagnosis on subsequent recognition of symptoms.","authors":"H. Arkes, A. R. Harkness","doi":"10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.568","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory","volume":"32 1","pages":"568-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80267830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reference points in spatial cognition.","authors":"E K Sadalla, W J Burroughs, L J Staplin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present research investigates the hypothesis that cognitive representations of large scale space contain elements that may be termed reference points, and that these points are used to define the position of adjacent places. The nature and function of reference points is explored in five experiments. Experiments 1 and 2 consist of tasks during which subjects judged the distance between known locations. The subjective distance between reference points and nonreference points was found to be asymmetrical, with the latter ordered in relation to the former. Experiments 3 and 4 employ reaction time tasks in which subjects attempted to verify the distance or direction from an anchor location to target locations. The data indicate that the relative referentiality of anchor and target locations influences verification time. The results of Experiments 1-4 suggest that reference points occur in spatial cognition and that these points provide an organizational structure that facilitates the location of adjacent points in space. Experiment 5 consists of a multiple regression analysis designed to clarify the semantic attributes of spatial reference points.</p>","PeriodicalId":76919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory","volume":"6 5","pages":"516-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18442505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of the Organization of Text on Memory: Tests of Retrieval and Response Criterion Hypotheses.","authors":"B. K. Britton, B. Meyer, M. H. Hodge, S. Glynn","doi":"10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.620","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory","volume":"77 1","pages":"620-629"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76342047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The feature-positive effect in adult human subjects.","authors":"Joseph P. Newman, William T. Wolff, E. Hearst","doi":"10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.630","url":null,"abstract":"Previous experiments with animals and young children have shown that discriminations based on the presence versus absence of a single feature are learned more easily when the feature appears on reinforced rather than nonreinforced displays. Six experiments demonstrated an analogous effect in college students, across a range of stimulus materials, general procedures, kinds of feedback, pacing of trials, and instructions to the subject. The results were analyzed in terms of the exceptionally strong control of behavior by events that are present on positive trials. These findings have implications for theoretical interpretations of human concept learning and decision making, and offer additional examples of the difficulty organisms experience in using \"nonoccurrence\" as a cue.","PeriodicalId":76919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental psychology. Human learning and memory","volume":"42 1","pages":"630-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82645608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}