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Published on: November 14, 2018
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Tetsuji Hirano1, Jun Ukita, Kan Kashu
1Department of Health Psychology, School of Human Sciences, Osaka University of Human Sciences, Osaka, Japan. t-hirano@kun.ohs.ac.jp
Abstract:
The authors examined whether the frequency of conjunction errors varied in a recognition test according to the semantic relation between 2 words. Participants studied a series of natural (meaningful) or bizarre Japanese noun phrase patterns and later completed a recognition test that contained old, conjunction, feature, and new stimuli. Participants who studied a list of natural noun phrases did not make any false old responses to unmatched (bizarre) conjunction stimuli. However, participants who studied bizarre noun phrases made as many false old responses to matched (bizarre) conjunction stimuli as to unmatched (natural) conjunction stimuli. The results of the bizarre study stimuli group indicated that bizarre noun phrases may be translated into meaningful stimuli because of mnemonic instruction. Together, the results support the hypothesis that conceptually based familiarity, not pure perceptually based familiarity, influences false old responses to conjunction stimuli.
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