Restricting effects of awareness? Serial position bias in Spence's study.

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Group I was a replication of the Spence (see 38:7399) study which suggested that awareness restricts recall. Spence's list was used with his serial order; it contained 27 words, CHEESE and 10 associates, 10 nonassociates of CHEESE, and 6 buffer items. Both studies suggested more recall of associates before but not after recall of CHEESE; however, there was not complete agreement between the studies. Groups II and III received the Spence list with markedly different serial orders to test the hypothesis that Spence's results are partly due to the serial order used. The list order for Group II contained associates in positions more favorable for recall whereas the order for Group III favored the nonassociates. The results for Group II showed more associates recalled but those for Group III showed no difference between word classes in recall. It was concluded that serial position and the greater interitem associative strength (see 37:6158) of the associates in Spence's serial order can account for the results which he attributes to restricting effects of awareness on recall. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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