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Is Time-Based Prospective Remembering Mediated by Self-Initiated Rehearsals? Role of Incidental Cues, Ongoing Activity, Age, and Motivation
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Kvavilashvili, Lia; Fisher, Laura – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
The present research examined self-reported rehearsal processes in naturalistic time-based prospective memory tasks (Study 1 and 2) and compared them with the processes in event-based tasks (Study 3). Participants had to remember to phone the experimenter either at a prearranged time (a time-based task) or after receiving a certain text message…
Descriptors: Motivation, Cues, Memorization, Memory
Anticipating by Pigeons Depends on Local Statistical Information in a Serial Response Time Task
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Froehlich, Alyson L.; Herbranson, Walter T.; Loper, Julia D.; Wood, David M.; Shimp, Charles P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2004
Pigeons responded in a serial response time task patterned after that of M. J. Nissen and P. Bullemer (1987) with humans. Experiment 1 produced global facilitation: Response times in repeating lists of locations were faster than when locations were random. Response time to a spatial location was also a function of both that location's 1st- and…
Descriptors: Intervals, Reaction Time, Serial Learning, Animals
Item and Order Information in Short-Term Serial Memory
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Murdock, Bennet B., Jr. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1976
Deals with memory for lists of items. The literature is briefly reviewed, and the main difficulties for traditional explanations of serial order effects are noted. (RK)
Descriptors: Diagrams, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Memory