A Causal Contiguity Effect That Persists across Time Scales

Autor/inn/en	Kilic, Asli; Criss, Amy H.; Howard, Marc W.
Titel	A Causal Contiguity Effect That Persists across Time Scales
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39 (2013) 1, S.297-303 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0028463
Schlagwörter	Recall (Psychology); Causal Models; Cues; Correlation; Task Analysis; Word Lists; Tests; Time Factors (Learning); Undergraduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abberufung; Kausalanalyse; Stichwort; Korrelation; Aufgabenanalyse; Wortliste; Examination; Prüfung; Examen
Abstract	The contiguity effect refers to the tendency to recall an item from nearby study positions of the just recalled item. Causal models of contiguity suggest that recalled items are used as probes, causing a change in the memory state for subsequent recall attempts. Noncausal models of the contiguity effect assume the memory state is unaffected by recall per se, relying instead on the correlation between the memory states at study and at test to drive contiguity. We examined the contiguity effect in a probed recall task in which the correlation between the study context and the test context was disrupted. After study of several lists of words, participants were given probe words in a random order and were instructed to recall a word from the same list as the probe. The results showed both short-term and long-term contiguity effects. Because study order and test order are uncorrelated, these contiguity effects require a causal contiguity mechanism that operates across time scales. (Contains 3 figures, 1 table and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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