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Familiarity from orthographic information: Extensions of the recognition without identification effect
Memory & Cognition (2007)
  • Marianne E. Lloyd, Seton Hall University
  • Deanne L. Westerman
  • Jeremy K. Miller
Abstract
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of letter location information in recognition memory judgments. The experiments used the recognition without identification paradigm (Peynircioğlu, 1990), in which participants first attempt to identify the test item and then make a recognition decision as to whether or not the item was studied. In these studies, items that are not identified but that correspond to items that were presented are typically still rated as more likely to have been studied than those that were not presented. The present experiments demonstrated this finding with a variant of the conjunction lure paradigm. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were tested with word fragments that were made from the letters of two words. When the letters were from studied items, fragments were rated higher than when the test items were derived from two unstudied items, or one studied item and one unstudied item, suggesting that recognition without identification is prone to the same types of errors as recognition with identification. Results are discussed in terms of familiarity effects in recognition memory.
Keywords
  • Recognition Memory,
  • Study List,
  • Test Word,
  • Word Fragment,
  • High Recognition Rating
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Publication Date
2007
DOI
10.3758/BF03195947
Citation Information
Marianne E. Lloyd, Deanne L. Westerman and Jeremy K. Miller. "Familiarity from orthographic information: Extensions of the recognition without identification effect" Memory & Cognition Vol. 35 (2007) p. 107 - 112
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marianne_lloyd/6/