SUBJECT UNCERTAINTY AND WORD-CLASS EFFECTS IN SHORT-TERM MEMORY FOR SENTENCES

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作者
MARTIN, E
WALTER, DA
机构
来源
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | 1969年 / 80卷 / 01期
关键词
short term sentence memory; sentence subject uncertainty &; word-class effects;
D O I
10.1037/h0027142
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The effect of memory-capacity release, determined by whether sentence subjects were low-uncertainty pronouns or high-uncertainty animate nouns, on sentence recall was studied at 0-, 10-, and 30-sec retention intervals in the Peterson short-term memory (STM) situation. Ss were 60 female undergraduates. Verbatim recall of pronoun sentences was markedly superior to that for noun sentences; but although there were striking word-class forgetting effects, the proportion distribution of these effects was little affected either by subject uncertainty or by retention interval. The indentity of word-class effects over retention intervals indicates selective processing at the time of input. Error pattern evidence is offered for the hypothesis that recall is a constructive process. (15 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.
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