Repetition effects as a function of rehearsal and encoding variability

In Experiment I, subjects were presented a list of sentences with some repeated at separations (lags) of 0, 5, 10, and 20 intervening events. Rehearsal and organization among list items was controlled by requiring subjects to generate and describe an image for each sentence during the presentation p...

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Published inJournal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 108 - 113
Main Authors D'Agostino, Paul R., DeRemer, Paula
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier B.V 01.01.1973
Academic Press
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Summary:In Experiment I, subjects were presented a list of sentences with some repeated at separations (lags) of 0, 5, 10, and 20 intervening events. Rehearsal and organization among list items was controlled by requiring subjects to generate and describe an image for each sentence during the presentation period. Free recall of object phrases produced a massed-distributed difference that was eliminated in cued recall. In Experiment II, the presentation of the object phrase in two different sentences eliminated lag effects in free recall when rehearsal was controlled, but free recall increased as a direct function of lag when rehearsal patterns were not constrained.
ISSN:0022-5371
0749-596X
DOI:10.1016/S0022-5371(73)80066-0