Memory access: The effects of fact-oriented versus problem-oriented acquisition |
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Authors: | Lea T Adams Jane E Kasserman A Alison Yearwood Greg A Perfetto John D Bransford Jeffery J Franks |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 134 Wesley Hall, 37240, Nashville, TN
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Abstract: | This study examined the effects of similarity between the processing of acquisition and the processing of test materials on performance in a problem solving task. Previous work by Perfetto, Bransford, and Franks (1983) demonstrated that uninformed subjects’ failure to utilize relevant acquisition information in a later problem solving task is the result of a failure to spontaneously access such information. The present study demonstrated that spontaneous access can be enhanced when both acquisition and test materials are processed in a similar manner, that is, in a problem-oriented manner. Furthermore, the present findings indicate that the processing similarity leading to enhanced access is specific to particular acquisition and test items, rather than a general problem solving set induced at acquisition and the subsequent testing situation. Results are interpreted within a transfer-appropriate processing perspective. |
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