The Locus of Imagery Effects in Free Recall
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Illinois Press in The American Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 94 (1) , 113-124
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1422346
Abstract
The effects of imagery on both immediate free recall (IFR) and final free recall (FFR) were studied. Separate groups of students received a series of lists composed of either pictures, concrete words or abstract words. Beneficial effects of imagery were evident for recency items but were only marginally present for prerecency items. The locus of imagery facilitation was considered to be contingent upon input modality. The visual input modality probably was also instrumental in preventing negative recency effects at all 3 levels of imagery. The FFR results were interpreted within the levels-of-processing and mental-imagery interpretations of negative recency.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Memory for Pictures and Words, and the Negative Recency EffectPerceptual and Motor Skills, 1978
- Mental Imagery and the Distinction between Primary and Secondary MemoryThe Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1978