Modeling the Effects of Verbal and Nonverbal Pair Strength on Associative Recognition
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2007
Keywords
Recognition Memory, False Alarm Rate, Study Time, Chinese Character, Joint Model
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193292
Abstract
Operations that improve the accuracy of associative recognition can do so in qualitatively different ways. Increasing repetitions and study time increases hit rates but has small effects on false alarm rates, and the specific patterns of false alarms are dependent on the stimuli (e.g., pairs of words, pseudowords, faces, or Chinese characters). In contrast, manipulating the type of stimuli that make up pairs produces a robust mirror effect: The hit rate is greater, and the false alarm rate is lower, for better recognized stimuli. To explain these findings, a model of single-item recognition is extended to associative recognition. Within this dual-process framework, the present results suggest that words are encoded more extensively than nonverbal stimuli and that recognition of frequently encountered stimuli (words and faces) is more likely to be based on recollection than is recognition of uncommon stimuli (pseudowords and Chinese characters).
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Memory & Cognition, v. 35, issue 3, p. 526-544
Scholar Commons Citation
Xu, Jing and Malmberg, Kenneth J., "Modeling the Effects of Verbal and Nonverbal Pair Strength on Associative Recognition" (2007). Psychology Faculty Publications. 1702.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1702
