Effect of Word Meaningfulness on Primary and Secondary Memory
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of General Psychology
- Vol. 101 (2) , 175-181
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.1979.9920071
Abstract
An experiment was carried out to determine the effects of mode of presentation (auditory or visual) and word meaningfulness on primary and secondary components of free recall (N = 80 female undergraduates). The results indicated that (a) word meaningfulness affected both primary and secondary memory, (b) visual presentation was superior to auditory presentation in secondary memory but auditory presentation was superior to visual presentation in primary memory (the modality effect), and (c) the modality effect was independent of word meaningfulness. It is suggested that there are modality-specific stores in primary memory, and that these stores can employ different forms of coding.Keywords
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