Stimulus encoding in the A-B', AX-B and the A-B'r, AX-B paradigms

Merryman, Coleman T.; Merryman, Sandra S.

doi:10.1016/s0022-5371(71)80075-0

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“…Evidence in support of this conclusion was first presented by Merryman (1971), who used a mixed-list design in which the conditions of unlearning were unidirectional (A-C) for some pairs and bidirectional (A·C and B-E) for others. The interpretative difficulties posed by such a mixed-list design have been discussed elsewhere (Postman & Stark.…”

Section: Tests Of the Hypothesis Of Response-set Interferencementioning

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“…These findings, which negate the assumption that identical nominal stimuli have a high probability of being recoded in the transfer phase, should not be confused with results showing a shift in stimulus selection when an entirely new element is first introduced during second-list learning, i.e.. the stimuli are A in the first list and AX in the second list (Houston. 1967a;Merryman & Merryman. 1971).…”

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Critical issues in interference theory

1973

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Section: Critique Of Martin's Positionmentioning

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Critical issues in interference theory

1973

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“…Early indications that encodings of low-meaningful nonsense materials were unstable (Martin, 1968) have given way to a substantial body of evidence that such encodings are more typically stable. Recoding is an empirically rare phenomenon, even under conditions of negative transfer, unless it is forced (Goggin & Martin, 1970) or prompted by building in list characteristics that draw attention to the recoding possibility or offer incentives for recoding (Merryman & Merryman, 1971;Weaver, 1969;Williams & Underwood, 1970).…”

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Semantic encoding stability and context.

Britton¹

1976

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory

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Homonyms with one pronunciation (e.g., sal) but two spellings and meanings (sail, sale) were presented aurally and then written under a disguised pretext. The spelling was assumed to reflect the dominant encoding. Initial encodings were either prompted by semantically selected context words or were not prompted. After intervals of 1-8 min, encodings were observed again, either with prompting context or without. Initially prompted encodings were less stable than unprompted ones, and the instability increased with increasing intervals. A prompting context at the second encoding opportunity increased the amount of recoding.This paper is based on a thesis submitted to the University of Iowa in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD. Appreciation is due especially to Rudolph W. Schulz and also to Sue R. Rosner, James V. Hinrichs, and an anonymous reviewer for advice and encouragement, and to Ronald Kellog and Alice Sanders for assistance.

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“…Indeed, if adults can actively compensate for changes in context, we can understand why no context effects have been found when semantic orienting tasks are switched on associative pairs in studies of adult memory (Till, Diehl, & Jenkins, 1975). This could also explain why equivocal results have been found in investigations of the existence and strength of encoding variability in adults (Merryman & Merryman, 1971;Mueller, Gautt, & Evans, 1974;Williams & Underwood, 1970).…”

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