Item and order information in semantic memory: students’ retention of the “CU fight song” lyrics

Overstreet, Michael F.; Healy, Alice F.

doi:10.3758/s13421-010-0018-3

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“…The data reported here and in other semantic serial position function papers (e.g., Crowder, 1993;Healy et al, 2000;Healy & Parker, 2001;Kelley et al, 2013;Maylor, 2002;Neath & Saint-Aubin, 2011;Overstreet & Healy, 2011;Roediger & Crowder, 1976) all converge on the same conclusion: serial position functions observed when the test nominally taps semantic memory do not differ from those observed when the task nominally taps episodic memory.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…The issue of which memory system is being tapped may be slightly less clear for the serial position functions observed with either well-known hymns (Maylor, 2002), a college "fight song" (Overstreet & Healy, 2011), or theme songs from popular children's cartoons (Kelley, Neath, & Surprenant, 2013). For the two remaining classes of stimuli, books and movies, the question is quite apposite: Are such serial position functions really semantic?…”

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A Remember-Know Analysis of the Semantic Serial Position Function

Kelley¹,

Neath²,

Surprenant³

2014

The American Journal of Psychology

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Did the serial position functions observed in certain semantic memory tasks (e.g., remembering the order of books or films) arise because they really tapped episodic memory? To address this issue, participants were asked to make "remember-know" judgments as they reconstructed the release order of the 7 Harry Potter books and 2 sets of movies. For both classes of stimuli, the "remember" and "know" serial position functions were indistinguishable, and all showed the characteristic U-shape with marked primacy and recency effects. These results are inconsistent with a multiple memory systems view, which predicts recency effects only for "remember" responses and no recency effects for "know" responses. However, the data were consistent with a general memory principle account: the relative distinctiveness principle. According to this view, performance on both episodic and semantic memory tasks arises from the same type of processing: Items that are more separated from their close neighbors in psychological space at the time of recall will be better remembered.

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A Remember-Know Analysis of the Semantic Serial Position Function

Kelley¹,

Neath²,

Surprenant³

2014

The American Journal of Psychology

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“…Thus, both accurate responses and error data mimic those observed in episodic settings. In this respect, the data replicate the findings of Maylor (2002) and Overstreet and Healy (2011). One advantage of now having three serial position functions using three different sets of lyrics is that it reduces the likelihood that the general pattern is due to some stimulus-specific factor.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…2 SIMPLE offers the same explanation for the three functions found here, for those observed with presidents (Roediger & Crowder 1976), prime ministers (Neath & Saint-Aubin, 2011), and hymn verses (Maylor, 2002;Overstreet & Healy, 2011), and for those found in episodic memory: Items are well remembered to the extent that they are more distinct than their close neighbors at the time of test.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Although the hymn used by Maylor (2002) was chosen to minimize sequential cues, a control group of non-church-goers performed better than chance at reconstructing the order of the verses. Similarly, while Overstreet and Healy (2011) included a control group of students who professed not to know the lyrics, these students also performed better than chance.…”

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Three more semantic serial position functions and a SIMPLE explanation

2012

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There are innumerable demonstrations of serial position functions-with characteristic primacy and recency effects-in episodic tasks, but there are only a handful of such demonstrations in semantic memory tasks, and those demonstrations have used only two types of stimuli. Here, we provide three more examples of serial position functions when recalling from semantic memory. Participants were asked to reconstruct the order of (1) two cartoon theme song lyrics, (2) the seven Harry Potter books, and (3) two sets of movies, and all three demonstrations yielded conventionallooking serial position functions with primacy and recency effects. The data were well-fit by SIMPLE, a local distinctiveness model of memory that was originally designed to account for serial position effects in short-and long-term episodic memory. According to SIMPLE, serial position functions in both episodic and semantic memory tasks arise from the same type of processing: Items that are more separated from their close neighbors in psychological space at the time of recall will be better remembered. We argue that currently available evidence suggests that serial position functions observed when recalling items that are presumably in semantic memory arise because of the same processes as those observed when recalling items that are presumably in episodic memory.

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The reminiscence bump without memories: The distribution of imagined word-cued and important autobiographical memories in a hypothetical 70-year-old

Koppel

Berntsen

2016

Consciousness and Cognition

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The reminiscence bump is the disproportionate number of autobiographical memories dating from adolescence and early adulthood. It has often been ascribed to a consolidation of the mature self in the period covered by the bump. Here we stripped away factors relating to the characteristics of autobiographical memories per se, most notably factors that aid in their encoding or retention, by asking students to generate imagined word-cued and imagined 'most important' autobiographical memories of a hypothetical, prototypical 70-year-old of their own culture and gender. We compared the distribution of these fictional memories with the distributions of actual word-cued and most important autobiographical memories in a sample of 61-70-year-olds. We found a striking similarity between the temporal distributions of the imagined memories and the actual memories. These results suggest that the reminiscence bump is largely driven by constructive, schematic factors at retrieval, thereby challenging most existing theoretical accounts.

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Item and order information in semantic memory: students’ retention of the “CU fight song” lyrics

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

A Remember-Know Analysis of the Semantic Serial Position Function

A Remember-Know Analysis of the Semantic Serial Position Function

Three more semantic serial position functions and a SIMPLE explanation

The reminiscence bump without memories: The distribution of imagined word-cued and important autobiographical memories in a hypothetical 70-year-old

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