Combining two separate series into a single ordering: Testing the local and global distinctiveness theories with absolute and relative judgments |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, Florida State University College of Medicine, 1115 W. Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32308;2. Psychology Department, W357 Thompson Hall, State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063;3. Department of Psychology, The University of Texas-Pan American, 1201 W. University, Edinburg, TX 78539;4. Sierra Mojada 950, Colonia Independencia, C.P. 44340, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico;5. Pedro de Alba S/N, Ciudad Universitaria, 66450 San Nicolás de Los Garza, N.L., Mexico;6. Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616;7. Department of Public Health Sciences, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1120 N.W. 14th Street, 10th Floor, Miami, FL 33136;8. Department of Geriatrics, Florida State University College of Medicine, 1115 W. Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32308;1. Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, 83200 Samos, Greece;2. Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Patission 76, 10434 Athens, Greece |
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| Abstract: | This study examined the differential effects of an absolute versus a relative judgment task on the retrieval of the border-position items after the combining of two separate serial lists. Under the absolute judgment condition (Experiment 1), the border-position items showed a local distinctiveness effect (faster judgment on these items than on the neighboring items), consistent with the prediction of the local distinctiveness theory of order memory, but not under the relative judgment condition (Experiment 2). The absence of the local distinctiveness effect under the relative judgment condition was consistent with the prediction of the global distinctiveness theory that a midseries item cannot be remembered better than its neighbors. The causes of the differential effects of the two judgment tasks were discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Absolute judgements Relative judgments Local distinctiveness Global distinctiveness Serial-order memory |
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