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Estimating Stimuli from Contrasting Categories: Truncation Due to Boundaries
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Huttenlocher, Janellen; Hedges, Larry V.; Lourenco, Stella F.; Crawford, L. Elizabeth; Corrigan, Bryce – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
In this article, the authors present and test a formal model that holds that people use information about category boundaries in estimating inexactly represented stimuli. Boundaries restrict stimuli that are category members to fall within a particular range. This model posits that people increase the average accuracy of stimulus estimates by…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Classification, Least Squares Statistics, Psychometrics
Sleep's Function in the Spontaneous Recovery and Consolidation of Memories
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Drosopoulos, Spyridon; Schulze, Claudia; Fischer, Stefan; Born, Jan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
Building on 2 previous studies (B. R. Ekstrand, 1967; B. R. Ekstrand, M. J. Sullivan, D. F. Parker, & J. N. West, 1971), the authors present 2 experiments that were aimed at characterizing the role of retroactive interference in sleep-associated declarative memory consolidation. Using an A-B, A-C paradigm with lists of word pairs in Experiment 1,…
Descriptors: Memory, Coding, Knowledge Representation, Paired Associate Learning
Imagery and Repetition Instructions in Verbal Discrimination and Incidental Paired-Associate Learning
Rowe, Edward J.; Paivio, Allan – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Results of research presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, New York, April 1970. (VM)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Discrimination Learning, Educational Experiments, Imagery