The Self-Choice Elaboration Effects on Incidental Memory of Japanese Historical Facts
The Self-Choice Elaboration Effects on Incidental Memory of Japanese Historical Facts
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自我选择阐述对日本历史事实偶然记忆的影响
DOI:
10.2466/pms.2000.91.1.69
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
Misako Tsujimura
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文献类型:
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作者:
H. Toyota;Misako Tsujimura
The subjects performed an orienting task involving 3 conditions, followed by unexpected tests which included free recall, name-matching and name-selection. Conditions were designed to force self-generated elaboration, self-choice elaboration, and experimenter-provided elaboration. In the self-generated elaboration condition, subjects were presented target sentences, e.g., Nobunaga ODA burned down ENRYAKUJI Temple, and asked to answer an elaborative interrogation, e.g., Why did Nobunaga ODA burn down ENRYAKUJI Temple? about each sentence. In the self-choice elaboration condition, subjects selected one of the alternative answers to an elaborative interrogation about each sentence. In the experimenter-provided elaboration condition, subjects were presented an answer which they rated for congruity as the correct answer to the elaborative interrogation. In the free recall test, self-generated elaboration led to better performance than the other two conditions for which no difference was observed. However, in the name-matching and name-selection tests, scores were better for self-choice elaboration and self-generated elaboration than for experimenter-provided elaboration. These results were interpreted as demonstrating that self-choice elaboration, in addition to self-generated elaboration, led to effective encoding in memory.