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Watkins, Olga C.; Watkins, Michael J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1975
Article expressed the view that the buildup and release from proactive inhibition effects in the Brown-Peterson paradigm could be interpreted in terms of the cue-overload principle. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Cues, Experimental Psychology, Inhibition, Memory
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Tulving, Endel; Watkins, Michael J. – Psychological Review, 1975
The objective of this article was to describe and discuss one possible approach to the problem of specifying properties of memory traces. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Cues, Information Retrieval, Memory, Perception
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Watkins, Michael J.; Tulving, Endel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1975
This article reviews evidence of context effects in recognition, and of failure to recognize recallable words. (Editor)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Memory, Psychological Studies, Recall (Psychology)
Watkins, Michael J.; Watkins, Olga C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1975
Recently, Nilsson (1975) challenged Watkins's conclusion that the modality effect is a post-categorical phenomenon. In this brief reply the authors argued that Nilsson's findings are not only consistent with the postcategorical interpretation but also inconsistent with the precategorical interpretation. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Critical Thinking, Experimental Psychology, Memory
Watkins, Olga C.; Watkins, Michael J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1977
Serial position curves for the immediate serial recall of supraspan word lists were investigated as a joint function of input modality and the frequency with which the list words occur in everyday usage. (Editor)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Illustrations, Memory, Psychological Studies
Watkins, Michael J.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
The present experiments were designed to obtain further information on the forgetting of verbal items from STS when the interpolated activity is a very attention-demanding nonverbal task. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Diagrams, Memory
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Tulving, Endel; Watkins, Michael J. – American Journal of Psychology, 1973
In this paper, we report a simple experiment demonstrating one form of continuity between recall and recognition. (Author)
Descriptors: Cues, Data Analysis, Psychological Studies, Recall (Psychology)
Watkins, Michael J.; Watkins, Olga C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
With a serial-recall procedure the last few items are better recalled following auditory as opposed to visual presentation. The present study investigated the locus of this modality effect. (Editor)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Auditory Stimuli, College Students, Psychological Studies