The author describes a mnemonic technique for remembering people's names. This method was developed by H. Lorayne (1958) and illustrates the effective use of image cues for improving memory. (RK)

This research uses a complex task (handwheel assembly) to enable comparison between the performance of mentally handicapped adults and adults from a "normal" population, in the acquisition of new work skills. Results add further support for the notion that the potential of mentally handicapped individuals is commonly underestimated. (Editor/RK)

These comments take up the major issues raised in Eyseck's (1978) critique (AA 528 584) of Craik & Lockhart (1972): the problem of circularity in the definition of "depth", the distinction between qualitative and quantitative differences in encoding, and the relationships between the concepts of depth, strength and elaboration. (Editor/RK)

The role of contexts in the imaging process was investigated in a cued-recall study. Results indicated that the capacity of the cue word to elicit the context was the most important factor determining recall. Uses the contextualist approach to memory and the encoding specificity principle in discussing results. (Editor/RK)

School and hospital records were used to examine childhood social competence, adult premorbid competence, and psychiatric outcome in adult schizoaffective, paranoid, and undifferentiated schizophrenics. A significant difference existed in childhood interpersonal competence and adult social competence among the subtypes. Results reflect…

This research examines different types of encoding strategies, in addition to semantic and organizational encodings, and their effects on schizophrenics' remembering. Based on Craik and Lockhart (1972), i.e., memory performance is a function of depth of encoding processing, this analysis compares schizophrenics' encoding processing with that of…

This study integrated observational and self-report methods to investigate the effects of low and high spatial density on 10-year-old boys in an experimental setting. Five factors emerged: discomfort and dislike of room; active play; avoidance; positive group interactions; and anger and aggression. (Author)

Examines the effects of consensus information on the prediction of behavior as a function of social desirability of consensus information and the presence or absence of vignette information about target persons. Discusses the different manners in which consensus information can be used. (Author/RK)

Cognitive psychology lacks explicit theories that encompass more than a single experimental paradigm. This research presents a theory of memory retrieval that not only applies over a range of paradigms but also deals with experimental data in greater depth and more detail than competing models. The theory provides a rationale for relating…

Results of a number of experiments conforming to a particular paradigm have yielded a highly systematic relation between the probability that recallable words are not recognized and the probability of recognition of all words. This recognition failure is largely constant with many conditions that greatly affect both recognition and (cued) recall.…

While there has been considerable success in isolating the dimensions of acoustic information that are important in perceiving and identifying speech sounds, very little is known about how the information from the various acoustic dimensions is put together in order to actually accomplish identification. Proposes and tests a model of these…

Compares the rates of forgetting of five-item sequences of acoustically similar and dissimilar consonants and words in the absence of proactive and retroactive interference in order to test whether within sequence similarity rather than stimulus length would have a greater influence on retention. (Author/RK)

Previous research has suggested that children are aware of changes in "orientation" prior to changes in "position" of objects as a function of an observer's viewpoint. Two question-asking studies investigated this finding relative to (a) changes in type of stimuli and (b) changes in response mode. (Editor/RK)

Four experiments examined the memory of Korean subjects for words written in the two writing systems used in Korea, one alphabetic, the other ideographic. The impetus for the investigation was the apparently different encoding properties of the two scripts, with alphabets seeming to encode sound and ideograms, meaning. (Editor)

Three experiments were conducted, investigating the buildup of and the release from proactive interference, in which the stimulus materials were brief prose passages about specific topics. Each passage was followed by a multiple-choice test, and then a final test on all the passages read was given. Implications of the data for standardized tests…