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The effect of part-list cuing on associative recognition
Tuanli Liu1, Xingfeng Hao1, Xingyuan Zhang2
1School of Educational Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
|February 7, 2024
Summary
Part-list cuing impairs associative memory by reducing both relational familiarity and item recollection and familiarity. This forgetting effect impacts recognition accuracy for face-scene pairs.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Memory Research
Background:
- Part-list cuing is known to affect item memory.
- Its impact on associative memory, particularly recollection and familiarity, is less understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the effect of part-list cuing on associative recognition.
- To determine if part-list cuing's forgetting effect is more sensitive to recollection or familiarity.
Main Methods:
- Experiments combined associative recognition tasks (intact/rearranged/new judgments) with part-list cuing.
- The Remember/Know/Guess task was used to differentiate recollection and familiarity.
Main Results:
- Part-list cuing decreased recognition accuracy for intact and rearranged face-scene pairs.
- Discriminability for relational and item recognition was reduced under part-list cuing.
- Part-list cuing lowered familiarity for relational recognition and both recollection and familiarity for item recognition.
Conclusions:
- Part-list cuing negatively impacts associative memory.
- The forgetting effect is linked to reduced familiarity in relational recognition and both recollection and familiarity in item recognition.
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