Bizarreness and recall
Bizarreness and recall
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奇异与回忆
DOI：
10.3758/bf03333616
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发表时间：
1981
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通讯作者：
K. A. Wollen
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作者：
Steven D. Cox;K. A. Wollen
尽管记忆专家长期以来一直提倡使用奇异的意象来帮助记忆，但大多数研究都未能发现奇异的意象是有效的。最近，奇异性被证明是有效的，但这些实验涉及混合列表，其中每个受试者都有奇异和非奇异的材料。本研究的目标是使用相同的材料，但在一个非混合列表设计中，每个主题只有奇怪或只有非奇怪的句子。与先前的研究相反，在单个单词的回忆数量方面，奇怪和非奇怪的条件之间没有显着差异，并且奇怪的情况显着降低了完整句子的回忆。结果表明，只有当实验者在混合列表的情况下提供奇异和非奇异的材料时，奇异性才有效。
Although memory experts have long advocated the use of bizarre imagery to aid memory, most research has failed to find bizarreness to be effective. Recently, bizarreness has been shown to be effective, but those experiments involved mixed lists in which each subject had both bizarre and nonbizarre materials. The goal of the present research was to use the same materials but in an unmixed-list design in which each subject had only bizarre or only nonbizarre sentences. Contrary to previous research, there were no significant differences between bizarre and nonbizarre conditions in terms of the number of individual words recalled, and bizarreness produced significantly lower recall of complete sentences. It was concluded that bizarreness is effective only when bizarre and nonbizarre materials are provided by the experimenter in a mixed-list situation.