The primary purpose of this study is to report the functional relation between recognition memory and degree of semantic contextual change and secondarily, to point out that the obtained relation can be described in terms of alternative theoretical approaches. (Author)

Frequency Theory, deriving from word recognition studies, was applied to immediate recognition of nonrepresentational pictorial items by 12-year old Ss. (Author)

Major implications of the results of this study are (a) their support for the reality or validity" of measured units of subjective organization, and (b) the effects on practice. (Author/RY)

Contrary to previous experiments which found recall with blocked spacing always superior to recall with random" spacings, these experiments found that total recall was a function of two independent factors: (a) category representation, and (b) items per category represented (IPC). Both factors are dependent upon within-category spacing.…

The purpose of the present experiment was to examine the effects of input variation upon recall performance in relation to two specific issues derived from the perceptual regrouping hypothesis. (Author)

This study attempts to discriminate between 2 theories about strategies Ss use when trying to remember a linear ordering. (Editor)

Forty-nine Ss learned a unidimensional concept with a six-dimensional stimulus set. Instructions specified the 12 possible unidimensional concepts, and the response on each trial was to give confidence ratings to each of the 12 corresponding hypotheses. (Author)

The present experiments test two plausible interpretations of the effect of frequency on relative recency judgments. (Editor)

Heart rate indexes of reaction time (RT) were investigated in male college students. (Author)

The recognition by children of pictures, names, and pictures together with names was examined using a sequential memory task. (Editor)

The objective of the present study was to replicate a qualitative prediction, that prior relevance information is predicted to be a powerful performance variable, in the context of other variations as well as to assess new quantitative predictions for these conditions based on the theoretical work. (Author/RK)

The present study used segmentation (the insertion of spaces after the second and fourth letters of six-letter strings) to assess the effect of a configurational change on matching times for words and nonwords under different expectancy conditions. (Editor)

The influence hypothesis argues that the perceptual superiority of words is due to S's opportunity to use the redundancy in words for making perceptual inferences, while the Unitization hypothesis argues that words are more perceptible because there are fewer units to process in a word than in a nonword. (Author)

Two possible modifications of the Bousfield et al. (1958) RR-IAR memory model were proposed to explain why backward associations between critical stimulus and experimental words do not result in increased experimental word false positive rates, while forward associations do. (Author)

The numerals 2-9 were randomly imbedded at one of three locations within words, pronounceable word fragments, and random sequences of letters which were presented tachistoscopically in random order to 24 Ss in a 3 x 3 repeated measures design. (Editor)