ELABORATION, ORGANIZATION, AND THE SELF-REFERENCE EFFECT IN MEMORY
ELABORATION, ORGANIZATION, AND THE SELF-REFERENCE EFFECT IN MEMORY
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DOI:
10.1037/0096-3445.115.1.26
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发表时间:
1986-03-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
KIHLSTROM, JF
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作者:
KLEIN, SB;KIHLSTROM, JF
Conducted 5 experiments with 272 undergraduates that challenged the interpretation of the self-reference effect that proposes that self-reference produces a more elaborate memory trace than semantic encoding by demonstrating that self-referent and semantic encodings produce virtually identical free recall levels if they are first equated for the amount of organization they encourage. Exp I attempted to replicate the findings of TB Rogers et al (see record 1979-25246-001) by comparing self-referent, semantic, and structural encoding tasks and examining cluster differences between these encoding tasks during free recall. The experiments that followed orthogonally varied organization and the encoding task. Overall results lead to the following conclusions: Organization, not elaboration, is responsible for the superior recall performance obtained when information is encoded self-referentially. Organization is not a necessary component of self-referent encoding and can be orthogonally varied within self-referent and semantic encoding tasks. How a single-factor theory based on organization can account for many of the self-referent recall findings reported in the literature is discussed.(92 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)