儿童记忆发展的若干特点的研究

本实验是对5—1l岁儿童记忆发展中若干特点如:记忆的策略、复述的出现、意义的组合、元记忆(Metamemory)等方面所作的研究。实验的结果指出:(一)随年龄的增长,儿童记策略水平不断提;记忆的容量也在增加;特别是在入小学后有了明显的变化。(二)训练可以促进儿童记忆策略水平的提高;但有一定的年龄范围;(三)记忆能力的发展受文化教育的影响,知识的丰富与记忆策略的掌握有着密切的关系。     

小学儿童记忆中组织策略发展的实验研究

本研究探讨了小学儿童组织策略的发展,结果表明:1.小学儿童组织策略的发展可分为产生性缺损和成熟运用组织策略两个主要阶段。第一个阶段根据是否伴随中介性缺损又可分为两个亚阶段。2.导致产生性缺损的原因有:(1)缺乏对记忆手段和记忆目标之间的功能关系的清晰认识;(2)不能清楚地认识策略的有效性,以及常运用自己熟悉的、简单的、但也相对无效的策略;(3)较差的有关记忆材料的知识基础以及较低的认识发展水平。     

“位置法”记忆训练对改善儿童至老年时期的认知功能研究

本工作采用“位置法”对118例被试(包括儿童、少年、青年、中年和老年五个年龄组)进行记忆训练研究,分析不同年龄人记忆的发展变化和认知训练对改善记忆的作用,进而探讨发展的认知功能储备能量的年龄差异。结果表明:1.老年和儿童组各项成绩明显低于青、少年组;2.认知干预措施可在一定程度上改善老年人的记忆,再次证明老年智力和记忆有一定的可塑性。但在发展的储备能量和对图形的迁移效应中也存在与记忆相似的年龄差异。     

中学生英语词汇记忆的策略训练研究

词汇记忆在中学英语学习中有着举足轻重的地位。本研究从策略入手 ,致力于探索记忆策略训练对英语词汇学习的积极效果。研究者在综合前人的策略分类观点和参照英语词汇学习本身特点的基础上提出了五种基本策略 ,并对之作了训练研究。从训练结果可知 ,这些策略若训练充分得当 ,能大大提高学生的词汇记忆成绩。研究者还对如何在英语词汇学习中运用策略帮助记忆提出了一个粗略的模型。从该模型中 ,我们可以清晰地看到词汇记忆的整个过程 ,以及影响策略选择和使用的各种因素     

不同阅读能力的儿童记忆中的组织策略

本文通过比较不同阅读能力儿童的运用策略的情况,探讨了阅读能力差的儿童的记忆能力和缺陷程度。结果表明:①阅读能力好的五年级儿童能自发地运用组织策略,而阅读能力差的儿童却不能自发地运用组织策略。②在产生有效记忆策略上的缺陷,较差的有关记忆材料的知识以及两者的交互作用是阅读能力差的儿童记忆行为差的主要原因。     

小学儿童识记双字词特点的研究

心理学有关儿童记忆的研究资料证明,儿童记忆的发展,受记忆材料的性质、数量,记忆的任务、方法等一系列条件的影响,即儿童所依存的记忆条件不同,记忆的效果也就不同.以儿童记忆材料的内容来看,可以概括为具体形象材料(物象、图象)和词的抽象材料(语言、文字、符号)两大方面.相应地儿童的记忆也可划分为具体形象记忆和词的抽象记忆两大基本类型.     

儿童策略的"利用缺陷"研究

“利用缺陷”是策略发展的一个关键阶段,该文从它的定义、存在证据、产生原因、发展过程等方面分析了策略“利用缺陷”的研究现状,并着重从记忆容量、知识基础、元记忆等发展性因素,智力、归因等个体性因素和训练条件等外部因素探讨了策略“利用缺陷”产生的原因,并对未来研究提出了展望。     

儿童记忆策略研究的近期动向

本文介绍了９０年代初儿童记忆策略研究的方法,研究内容的变化情况,着重介绍了策略利用缺陷现象的发现、证实、解释理论、产生原因的推测和策略有效性发展的阶段理论。     

5～13岁儿童元记忆发展的实验研究

本文是对昆明汉族、永善马楠乡的汉族和奕族儿童元记忆发展的研究。具体内容有:1.儿童对记忆目的和任务的认识;2.对记忆材料的性质影响记忆效果的认识;3.对记忆效果的评价;4.记忆策略的选择;5.文化背景对儿童元记忆发展的影响。实验结果指出:1.5～13岁儿童元记忆的发展经历了两个明显变化时期,即入小学和上中学;2.文化教育对儿童元记忆的发展有着明显的影响。     

记忆组织策略训练对提高中学生记忆英语单词效果的实验研究

1　问题的提出　　在当前英语教学实践中 ,一般没有通过教学训练使学生掌握有效的记忆策略 ,学生大多采用机械记忆的方式记忆英语单词 ,普遍感到“英语单词难记”。认知心理学认为 ,人类记忆的基本特征是组织化。关于记忆组织的概念 ,比较一致的观点认为 ,记忆组织是个体对所识记材料的加工 ,其实质是发现记忆项目的共同特征或性质 ,达到减轻记忆负担的目的。迄今为止 ,关于记忆组织的研究大多系基础性研究 ,其内容主要集中在 :记忆组织现象的揭示和儿童记忆组织水平及其应用记忆组织策略能力的发展。而针对学科教学实际 ,在常规教学条件下…     

Effects of bilingualism, aging, and semantic relatedness on memory under divided attention.

We examined how encoding and retrieval processes were affected by manipulations of attention, and whether the degree of semantic relatedness between words in the memory and distracting task modulated these effects. We also considered age and bilingual status as mediating factors. Monolingual and bilingual younger and older adults studied a list of words from a single semantic category presented auditorily, and later free recalled them aloud. During either study or retrieval, participants concurrently performed a distracting task requiring size decisions to words from either the same or a different semantic category as the words in the memory task. The greatest disruptions of memory from divided attention (DA) were for encoding rather than retrieval. The effect of semantic relatedness was significant only for DA at encoding. Older age and bilingualism were associated with lower recall scores in all conditions, but these factors did not influence the magnitude of memory interference. The results suggest that encoding is more sensitive to semantic similarity in a distracting task than is retrieval. The role of attention at encoding and retrieval is discussed.     

Involuntary memory and the development of retrieval skills in young children

An incidental memory paradigm was used to study involuntary encoding processes and voluntary retrieval strategies in children's memory. Preschool (mean age: 4 years, 4 months) and kindergarten (mean age: 5 years, 10 months) children sorted pictures according to their color or category membership, and then received either a recall test (Experiment 1) or a recognition test (Experiment 2). Better retention of category- than color-sorted items was observed for kindergarten children in free recall, preschool and kindergarten children in cued recall, and neither group in recognition. These results were interpreted in terms of the retrieval strategies used by children in each of the memory tasks. The importance of distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary memory processes, and between acquisition and retrieval, in studies of depth-of-processing was emphasized. Developmental differences in performance appear to derive primarily from the role of voluntary search strategies in retrieval, rather than from age differences in involuntary encoding processes.     

关于短时记忆中范畴群集的定位实验

本研究通过对短时记忆的编码或提取阶段进行注意分散来探讨范畴群集的定位问题。以大学生为被试,应用双作业进行分散注意条件下的记忆实验,并与集中注意条件下的记忆实验进行比较。识记材料均为双范畴词表。结果表现无论在编码还是提取阶段分散注意,都导致范畴群集程度的降低。实验结果不支持认为范畴群集的组织过程仅仅发生在记忆信息加工的某一个阶段的看法,而有利于双重定位观点,即认为范畴群集既与编码阶段有关,也与提取阶段有关。     

Gesturing helps memory encoding in aMCI

Encoding in episodic memory is a step often impaired in patients with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI). However, procedural memory processes are still relatively preserved. In line with previous research on the enactment effect, we investigated the potential benefit of encoding words combined with imitative gestures on episodic memory. Based on the Grober and Buschke’s free/cued recall procedure, we developed the Symbiosis test in which 13 patients with aMCI and 16 healthy elderly participants learned 32 words belonging to 16 different semantic categories either in a verbal encoding (A) or a bimodal (B; verbal and motor imitation) condition, using a blocked ABBA/BAAB procedure. Overall, memory retrieval was better in healthy participants than in patients with aMCI, and better for cued retrieval in the bimodal encoding (gesture cues) than the verbal encoding (category cues) condition, but there was no interaction effect between group and encoding conditions. These results show that performing concomitant gestures can enhance cued episodic memory retrieval in patients with aMCI and in healthy elderly controls. The Symbiosis test broadens the scope of the enactment effect, from action phrases to isolated words learning in patients with aMCI. Future work should investigate how bimodal encoding provides novel perspectives for memory rehabilitation in patients with aMCI.     

An asymmetry between memory encoding and retrieval. Revelation, generation, and transfer-appropriate processing

Transfer-appropriate-processing accounts of memory emphasize the similarity of encoding and retrieval processes, and imply that experimental manipulations should have similar effects on encoding and retrieval. Exceptions to this expectation are thus of great interest, but extant exceptions (produced by studies using divided attention, alcohol, and benzodiazepines) are debatable, single dissociations between encoding and retrieval. The present experiments demonstrate a reversed dissociation, in which the same variable produced opposite effects when implemented at encoding and retrieval. At encoding, participants either solved anagrams of study words or read intact study words. At retrieval, participants likewise solved anagrams or read intact words prior to making recognition memory judgments. Compared with reading intact words, solving anagrams at encoding enhanced later recognition accuracy, whereas solving anagrams at test impaired accuracy. These results were obtained with old/new decisions (Experiment 1) and with confidence ratings (Experiment 2).     

The dual effect of context on memory of related and unrelated themes: Discrimination at encoding and cue at retrieval

The influence of contextual factors on encoding and retrieval in recognition memory was investigated using a retroactive interference paradigm. Participants were randomly assigned to four context conditions constructed by manipulating types of presentation modality (pictures vs words) for study, interference, and test stages, respectively (ABA, ABB, AAA, & AAB). In Experiment 1 we presented unrelated items in the study and interference stages, while in Experiment 2 each stage contained items from the same semantic category. The results demonstrate a dual role for context in memory processes-at encoding as well as at retrieval. In Experiment 1 there is a hierarchical order between the four context conditions, depending on both target-test and target-interference contextual similarity. Adding a categorical context in Experiment 2 helped to specify each list and therefore better distinguish between target and interferer information, and in some conditions compensated for their perceptual similarity.     

Encoding strategy affects false recall and recognition: Evidence from categorical study material

The present research investigated memory vulnerability to distortions. Different encoding strategies were used when categorized lists were studied. The authors assumed that an imagery strategy would be responsible for decreasing false memories more than a word-whispering strategy, which is consistent with the model of semantic access and previous research in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm (the DRM paradigm; Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995). A normative study of category lists and 4 experiments were conducted to verify the memory vulnerability to different encoding strategies (imagery, word-whispering, control). Half of subjects recalled and half recognized previously studied words. The results revealed a marked reduction in false recognition and recall after imagery encoding, relative to after word-whispering encoding.     

Executive processing in free recall of categorized lists

The present study examines the cognitive processes that operate in free recall of categorized lists by manipulating semantic structure of the lists and using a dual task methodology to restrict the processes that make demands on limited-capacity resources, the central executive resources. Relying on the assumption that, in free recall of categorized lists, the search for category names is a strategic controlled process that demands executive resources, lists with different numbers of categories ranging from 2 to 6 were employed. The results showed an effect of a secondary task on retrieval in the 4- and the 6-category list conditions, but not in the 2-category list condition. In contrast to retrieval, the secondary task interference at encoding produced an effect on recall of all three types of lists. An interesting finding was that an effect on clustering was found only when interference was present at encoding, not when it was at retrieval. This finding was in line with the suggestion (Troyer, Moscovitch, Winocur, Alexander, & Stuss, 1998) that switching (shifting between different category items) rather than clustering is related to executive functioning, and suggested that clustering may be a measure of two different types of processing: (1) executive processing at encoding and (2) automatic processing at retrieval. In addition, a different pattern of results was obtained when low frequency category words were used, indicating that the frequency of category words is an important determinant in free recall of categorized lists. Overall, the present results support the two-process account of retrieval of category words (Rosen & Engle, 1997) and the view that there are fundamental differences between encoding and retrieval processes (Naveh-Benjamin, Craik, Guez, & Dori, 1998; Naveh-Benjamin & Guez, 2000).     

A categorical recall strategy does not explain animacy effects in episodic memory

Animate stimuli are better remembered than matched inanimate stimuli in free recall. Three experiments tested the hypothesis that animacy advantages are due to a more efficient use of a categorical retrieval cue. Experiment 1 developed an “embedded list” procedure that was designed to disrupt participants’ ability to perceive category structure at encoding; a strong animacy effect remained. Experiments 2 and 3 employed animate and inanimate word lists consisting of tightly constrained categories (four-footed animals and furniture). Experiment 2 failed to find an animacy advantage when the categorical structure was readily apparent, but the advantage returned in Experiment 3 when the embedded list procedure was employed using the same target words. These results provide strong evidence against an organizational account of the animacy effect, indicating that the animacy effect in episodic memory is probably due to item-specific factors related to animacy.     

Retention performance as a function of the distinctiveness of memory traces and retention task

Summary In the acquisition phase of an incidental learning paradigm, words that are exemplars of categories were judged as to whether or not they belonged to a specified category. This was followed by a forced choice recognition task. The effects of three variables were studied: a) whether the acquisition task called for a positive or a negative response; b) the number of exemplar words per category; and c) whether distractor items in the recognition test came from the same category as the target words or from other categories. The results showed that recognition errors were influenced by all three variables. Unlike the variables a) and c) which showed significant main effects, the effect of number of exemplars per category was significant only for the same category distractor condition. In this condition more exemplars per category led to more recognition errors. The results are explained by assuming that retention performance is determined by two factors. The first factor is the distinctiveness of the memory traces. This is supposed to be a joint product of task-specific encoding and stimulus characteristics. The second factor is the distinctive similarity between the retrieval information and the stored memory traces. Although the results show some sublte effects that are not easy to explain, it is argued that this model offers a good account of the general findings.