Cue-dependency and Frequency Effects： Evidence from Chinese

Recently,agreatdealofinteresthadbeenfocusedonim plicitmemory,whichischaracterisedastheeffectofapreviousl memorisedpieceofinformationonataskwithouttheexplicito deliberateattempttorecallthememory(UnderwoodandBright 1996).Itisbelievedthatpriming,amainindicatorofimplici memory,oftenoccurswhensubjectsdonotknowtherelation shipbetweentheprimeandtarget,andconsequently,ithasbee regardedanimplicitasopposedtoanexplicitformofmemor (Bowers,1996;GrafandSchacter,1985).Tulving(1983 andTulvingandThomson(…

Cue-dependency and Frequency Effects: Evidence from Chinese

The present study disclosed that a) prime stimuli had a significant effect on the object in implicit tests, but not in the explicit condition, and b) greater priming occurred when the study and test fonts coincided than whey they differeds, Moreover, the performance in implicit memory tests was more impaired by a shift from official to printed fonts than by a shift in the reverse direction. In addition, the results also revealed that low frequency materials produced more priming than did high frequency materials in implicit memory tests, but less effect of this variable on priming in explicit memory tests could be obtained with the same target characters. The above results implied that a transfer appropriate processing approach suggested by Roediger, Weldon and Challis (1989) is more acceptable to interpret the dissociation between implicit and explicit memory. The authors also critically commented on the implicit memory tests of Chinese widely used by researchers.