Cue Patterns and Alcohol Expectancies: How Slight Differences in Stimuli Can Measurably Change Cognition
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2005
Keywords
alcohol-related cognition, expectancies, cue patterns, cue pattern identification, memory processes, recall, experience level
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1037/1064-1297.13.1.65
Abstract
Expectancy theory states that environmental cues provide the information necessary for organisms to predict what is upcoming in the world. Because this information is vast, mechanisms of simplification such as identification of cue patterns are thought to be necessary. This study tested the influence of 2 different cue patterns on alcohol-related cognition. By simply changing the 1st word (milk vs. beer) on a study list comprising alcohol expectancy and grocery words, content differences in recalled words were demonstrated. Additionally, differences were a product of experience with alcohol. Findings were consistent with what would be predicted by cognitive concepts such as hybrid cuing and point to the need to take context and individual experience into account when studying memory processes.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, v. 13, issue 1, p. 65-71
Scholar Commons Citation
Reich, Richard R.; Noll, Jane A.; and Goldman, Mark S., "Cue Patterns and Alcohol Expectancies: How Slight Differences in Stimuli Can Measurably Change Cognition" (2005). Psychology Faculty Publications. 928.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/928
