Contexts and control operations used in accessing list-specific, generalized, and semantic memories.
Cogn Psychol
; 58(3): 311-37, 2009 May.
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ABSTRACT
The human ability to focus memory retrieval operations on a particular list, episode or memory structure has not been fully appreciated or documented. In Experiment 1-3, we make it increasingly difficult for participants to switch between a less recent list (multiple study opportunities), and a more recent list (single study opportunity). Task performance was good, although there was a cost associated with switching. In Experiment 4, list-specific learning experiences were used to create a generalized memory as a step towards semantic memory. List-specific memories intruded during attempts to retrieve the generalized memory and the generalized memory enhanced list-specific performance. The generalized memory also intruded in a free-association task. We propose that a hierarchy of contexts and control operations underlie the human ability to access different memory structures and that there is no sharp discontinuity in the control operations needed to access list-specific, generalized, and semantic memories.
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Assunto principal:
Aprendizagem por Associação
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Semântica
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Comportamento Verbal
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Reconhecimento Psicológico
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Memória
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cogn Psychol
Ano de publicação:
2009
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Article
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