Imagery and abstractness in short-term memory.
- 1 January 1970
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 84 (2) , 268-272
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0029108
Abstract
256 undergraduates were run in a short-term memory study to investigate whether or not words are encoded according to their imagery-abstract characteristic. No clear evidence in support of encoding by means of this dimension was found. Performance on high-imagery words was superior to performance on abstract words on the 2nd and 3rd trial of the experiment, but not on the 1st, suggesting that the superior performance on high-imagery words is due to the fact that they produce less interitem interference than do abstract words. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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