Picture superiority in free recall: The effects of organization and elaboration |
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Authors: | Gary H Ritchey |
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Institution: | University of California, San Diego, USA |
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Abstract: | A conception of semantic memory structure is presented in which elaboration is considered to vary both between and within items. Pictures and their verbal labels are suggested to activate common abstract memory representations, but these activations will differ in their degree of within-item elaboration. However, pictures and words should show comparable between-item elaboration properties, such as might be revealed by the category-recall relationship and clustering in free recall. Children were presented pictures and words in either a category-recall situation, where between-item elaboration was emphasized, or in a control situation where between-item elaboration was minimized. No differences between pictures and words in either recall or clustering were found in the category-recall task. However, when the same items were presented in the control situation the typical picture superiority effect in free recall was found. The results are interpreted as consistent with a two-factor theory of semantic elaboration, and indicate that these basic properties of memory encoding hold even for young children. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to Gary H Ritchey Department of Psychology University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131 |
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