Exploring a recognition-induced recognition decrement.
Four experiments were performed to explore a recognition decrement that is associated with the recognition of a word from a short list. The stimulus material for demonstrating the phenomenon was a list of words of different syntactic types. A word from the list was recognized less well following a decision that a word of the same type had occurred in the list than following a decision that such a word had not occurred in the list. A recognition decrement did not occur for a word of a given type following a positive recognition decision to a word of a different type. A recognition decrement did not occur when the list consisted exclusively of nouns. It was concluded that the phenomenon may reflect a criterion shift but, probably, does not reflect a list strength effect, suppression, or familiarity attribution consequent to a perceived discrepancy between actual and expected fluency.
Dopkins
Stephen
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Psychology Department, George Washington University, 2125 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA. dopkins@gwu.edu
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Trinh Catherine
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Sargent
Jesse
J
D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014825:Vocabulary