Self-corrected elaboration and spacing effects in incidental memory.
The present study investigated the effect of self-corrected elaboration on incidental memory as a function of types of presentation (massed vs spaced) and sentence frames (image vs nonimage). The subjects were presented a target word and an incongruous sentence frame and asked to correct the target to make a common sentence in the self-corrected elaboration condition, whereas in the experimenter-corrected elaboration condition they were asked to rate the appropriateness of the congruous word presented, followed by free recall test. The superiority of the self-corrected elaboration to the experimenter-corrected elaboration was observed only in some situations of combinations by the types of presentation and sentence frames. These results were discussed in terms of the effectiveness of the self-corrected elaboration.
Toyota
Hiroshi
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Department of Psychology, Nara University of Education, Japan. htoyota@nara-edu.ac.jp
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011932:Reading; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning