More on the recall of nominalizations

Rohrman, Nicholas L.

doi:10.1016/s0022-5371(70)80097-4

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“…As was pointed out in the introduction, several theoretical trends point to the verb's importance in the sentence. This view is corroborated by rating and sorting experiments (e.g., Healy & Miller, 1970) and by processing tasks that directly manipulate verb characteristics (e.g., Rohrman, 1970).…”

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confidence: 87%

“…A variety of researchers have shown empirically how manipulations of verbs can influence sentence processing. The effects of varying verb transitivity have been demonstrated by Bacharach, Kellas, and McFarland (1972), Polzella and Rohrman (1970), and Rohrman (1970)'; for complete sentence recall Thios (1975) has shown that, when verbatim responses are used in a cuedrecall task, sentences with specific verbs are recalled better than sentences with general verbs. Using a paired-associate task with nouns as both stimuli and responses, Bower (1970) has reported similar findings when subjects were instructed to image a scene of two objects interacting in some way or to image the two objects as independent entities in their imagined space (for example, as pictures hanging on opposite walls of a room).…”

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Recognition memory for elements of sentences

Reynolds

Flagg

1976

Memory & Cognition

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Although several theoretical positions and a variety of empirical tasks indicate the importance of verbs to sentences, nouns are generally recalled and recognized better in memorial tasks. Three main models can be identified to explain this discrepancy ("Fillenbaum's paradox"). To try to resolve this paradox, several experiments explored the efficiency of various sentence elements as cues in recognition memory. In Experiment I, concreteness of the stimuli did not interact with the type of distractor; however, verb phrase changes were harder to recognize than noun phrase changes when synonym distractors were used. This result was replicated in a forced-choice recognition paradigm (Experiment II) and with whole sentences where the derivational similarity of verbs and nouns was controlled (Experiment IV). The effect could not be attributed to characteristics of the English language (Experiment III) or to superior memory for form information in nouns (Experiment V). The total results are interpreted as suggesting that subjects process different parts of a sentence to different semantic levels, with verbs receiving more semantic representation and nouns more orthographic or phonological representation. The results are taken as support for a "semantic encoding model" of Fillenbaum's paradox.

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Recognition memory for elements of sentences

Reynolds

Flagg

1976

Memory & Cognition

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“…This hypothesis is a reasonable one to make on the basis of other evidence showing that information concerning inanimate and animate concepts is processed and represented differentially. For example, words referring to animate entities are remembered better than words referring to inanimate entities (Byrne & Davidson, 1985;Glanzer & Koppenaal, 1977;Rohrman, 1970). Also, in sentences that contain both animate and inanimate concepts, there is a preference to select the animate concept as the subject of a sentence (Bock & Miller, 1991;Corrigan, 1988).…”

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Mental model organization.

Radvansky¹,

Spieler²,

Zacks³

1993

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

159

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Previous research (Radvansky & Zacks, 1991) has shown that the fan effect is mediated not by the number of nominal associations paired with a concept but by the number of mental models into which related concepts are organized. Specifically, newly learned "facts" about different objects in one location are integrated into a single mental model and no fan effect is produced, whereas facts about one object in different locations are not integrated and a fan effect is produced. In 6 experiments we investigated several factors' influence on location-based organization preferences. We found no impact of either article type (definite or indefinite) or object transportability. However, animate sentence subjects (people) reduced preference for location-based organizations. A clear person-based organization emerged by using locations that typically contain only a single person (e.g., phone booth) to make location-based situations less plausible.

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“…Many verbs take on either form (e.g., "Jack believed the man" versus "Jack believed the man to be innocent"). Several researchers have found that intransitive verbs gave easier sentence recall than transitive verbs (Bacharach, Kellas, & McFarland, 1972;Polzella & Rohrman, 1970;Rohrman, 1970;Segui & Kail, 1972). These findings are explained by the hypothesis that intransitive verbs are psychologically simpler, since they do not denote as complex a relationship between the subject and object as do transitive verbs.…”

Section: Verb Structurementioning

confidence: 99%