The role of reinstating generation operations in recognition memory and reality monitoring

• Authors: Marek Nieznański

Abstracts

EN

The role of encoding/retrieval conditions compatibility was investigated in a reality-monitoring task. An experiment was conducted which showed a positive effect of reinstating distinctive encoding operations at test. That is, generation of a low-frequency (LF) word from the same word fragment at study and test significantly enhanced item recognition memory. However, reinstating of relatively more automatic operations of reading or generating a highfrequency (HF) word did not influence recognition performance. Moreover, LF words were better recognized than HF words, but memory for source did not depend on the encoding/retrieval match or on the word-frequency. In comparison with reading, generating an item at study significantly enhanced source memory but generating it at test had no effect. The data were analysed using a multinomial modelling approach which allowed ruling out the influence of a response bias on the measurement of memory ability.

Keywords

EN

transfer-appropriate processing; recognition memory; generation effect; reality monitoring; source memory; multinomial models

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 363-371

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Marek Nieznański

• Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Institute of Psychology, ul. Wóycickiego 1/3 bud. 14, 01-938 Warsaw, Poland;

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ppb-2014-0044

Biblioteka Nauki

430826