Retrieval of propositional information from long-term memory |
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Authors: | John Robert Anderson |
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Institution: | University of Michigan U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Three experiments are reported in which subjects learn propositions like A hippie is in the park. The experiments manipulate the number of such propositions involving a particular person (e.g., hippie) or a particular location (e.g., park). After learning the material, subjects are asked to judge whether particular probe propositions are from the study set. Times to make these judgments about probe propositions increase with the number of study propositions involving the person or location used in the probe proposition. A model is presented which assumes a subject simultaneously accesses memory from all concepts in a probe proposition and serially searches through all study propositions involving each concept. Search of memory terminates as soon as one search process from a concept finds the probe proposition or exhausts the study propositions attached to that concept. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to John Anderson Human Performance Center 330 Packard Road Ann Arbor Mich 48104 |
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