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Reminiscence, forgetting, and hypermnesia using face-name learning: isolating the effects using recall and
Lowell D Groninger1, Kenneth N Murray
1Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore 21228, USA. groninge@umbc.edu
Abstract:
A face-name learning paradigm was used to study phenomena involved in reminiscence, forgetting, and hypermnesia. Individuals introduced themselves on videotape while participants tried to learn their names. The presence of cues during testing increased overall performance but decreased hypermnesia in Experiment 1. Significant recognition memory effects were found for reminiscence and hypermnesia in Experiments 2 and 3. Experiment 3 also showed no interference from activities between testing sessions, but did show facilitating effects from exposure to photographs of target faces and to exposure of target names. The results were interpreted as showing support for reminiscence effects being primarily caused by imagery redintegration and effects consistent with stimulus sampling theories.
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