RECIPROCITY OF RETENTION AND INTERPOLATED-TASK SCORES IN SHORT-TERM MEMORY
- 1 June 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 24 (3) , 903-909
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1967.24.3.903
Abstract
A serial reaction task was used as the interpolated activity in an experiment testing short-term memory (STM) for word strings after 30 sec. Significant effects of the complexity of each task upon performance of the other were found, viz., retention of 5-word stimuli led to poorer performance on an interpolated task than retention of 3-word stimuli, and a stimulus-response lag in the reaction task reduced memory scores. However, there was not clear evidence for reciprocity of performance levels from trial to trial within Ss [subjects]. The recognition that STM experiments employ divided-attention paradigms is potentially important in the interpretation of proactive inhibition effects.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The effect of a brief interpolated task on short-term retention.Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie, 1965