Conjunction errors and semantic transparency |
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Authors: | Mungchen Wong Caren M Rotello |
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Institution: | (1) University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas;(2) University of Texas, Arlington, Texas;(3) Department of Psychology, University of North Florida, 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road S, 32224 Jacksonville, FL |
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Abstract: | Memory conjunction errors occur when aspects of two different events are falsely recognized or recalled as having occurred
as parts of the same event. One theoretical account of conjunction errors is rooted in traditional dual-process models of
recognition judgments, in which responses are based on an item’s familiarity or the retrieval of recollected details associated
with the encoding of that item. We manipulated the familiarity of test probes by varying their semantic overlap with studied
items, taking advantage of the inherent semantic transparency of compound words. Transparent compounds are those whose component
parts (lexemes) are semantically related to the meaning of the entire word. In contrast, opaque compounds’ lexemes do not
contribute directly to the meaning of the compound. We showed that the familiarity of semantically transparent assembly lures
created from their lexemes (study dog and house, test on doghouse) is greater than the familiarity of opaque assembly lures (study back and draw, test on drawback). A response-signal experiment revealed no evidence for the use of a recall-to-reject process for either semantically transparent
or opaque lures. |
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