Recognition hypermnesia.
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Title
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Recognition hypermnesia.
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Identifier
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AAI3204960
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identifier
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3204960
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Creator
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Bergstein, Jacquelyn.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Matthew H. Erdelyi
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Date
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2006
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Experimental | Psychology, Cognitive
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Abstract
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Recognition hypermnesia---improved memory with repeated testing---is produced using non-standard tests that emphasize the role of retrieval in the recognition memory task. In a non-standard test of recognition, test items are not representations of the study items but are in some sense transforms of these items. The test items may be truncated or part-forms of study items, or paraphrases, for example.;Experiments 1, 2, and 3 sought to explore hypermnesia using stimuli that are typical in recognition and recall tasks in the laboratory: words and simply drawn pictures. The test items for these experiments were transforms, such that (depending on the experiment) pictures were tested with their verbal equivalents and words with their picture counterparts. The only successful condition in this set was Experiment 2, which separated pictures and words in the study phase. The picture-study group (tested with words) produced significant improvement over the course of three successive recognition tests.;A study by Erdelyi and Stein (1981) had produced one of the few clear-cut instances of recognition hypermnesia in the literature, using cartoons with captions as stimuli. Experiments 4 through 8 were designed around this study. During the study phase, subjects were presented with a complete cartoon comprised of a picture component plus verbal caption. In Experiment 5 (picture-only condition) subjects were tested on the picture portion of each cartoon, replicating the Erdelyi and Stein (1981) findings of recognition hypermnesia when a part-form is used at test.;Experiment 4 (picture-fragment condition) cropped the stimulus even further, leaving only a quadrant of the picture for testing. Recognition hypermnesia was not obtained. Experiment 6 employed paraphrases of the stimuli, produced by rendering the visual elements of the cartoon in written form, resulting in a greater degree of hypermnesia than the pictures alone.;Experiment 7 produced the strongest results: highly significant recognition hypermnesia using latent content (a summary in words of the gist of each cartoon) for testing. The joining of verbal paraphrase with latent content in Experiment 8 proved to be a successful combination in producing recognition hypermnesia as well.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
