COGNITIVE ARITHMETIC - EVIDENCE FOR RETRIEVAL AND DECISION-PROCESSES IN MENTAL ADDITION
COGNITIVE ARITHMETIC - EVIDENCE FOR RETRIEVAL AND DECISION-PROCESSES IN MENTAL ADDITION
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DOI:
10.1037/0278-7393.4.5.527
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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BATTAGLIA, J
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作者:
ASHCRAFT, MH;BATTAGLIA, J
Two experiments, each with 12 undergraduates, examined simple addition processes in which single integer problems were presented for true–false verification. The stated sums of the false problems were incorrect by a reasonable (X 1 or 2) or unreasonable (X 4 or 5) amount from the correct sums. The reaction time (RT) to unreasonable wrong problems was significantly faster than to reasonable wrong problems, and RT to true problems was fastest overall. The best predictor of RT to true and reasonable false stimuli was the square of the correct sum; for the unreasonable false problems, the minimum addend accounted for most of the variance. Exp II replicated the above effects and found facilitation of RT with immediately repeated stimuli. Results are inconsistent with strictly counting or retrieval-counting models of addition. Instead, the RT patterns support a retrieval-decision model of addition in memory and are interpreted as analogous to search and distance effects in semantic information processing.(15 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)