Trace Quality in the Temporal Ordering of Events

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The hypothesis was tested that the degree to which an event is recognized as having occurred before acts as a cue in determining when that event occurred in relation to a second event. It was assumed that a high association value (AV) nonsense syllable would be forgotten less rapidly than a low AV syllable. S saw a mixed list of high and low AV trigrams. Periodically S was asked which of two syllables he had seen first in the list. All four possible combinations of AV were used in the questions about order of occurrence. As predicted, more errors were made on High-Low pairs than on Low-High pairs. However, this relationship was found only for Ss who reported having used memory as a cue in ordering the syllables (13 of the 24).

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