Abstract:The primary purpose of this research was to investigate whether verbal and imaginal encoding interact with stimulus codability and exposure either to enhance or to retard recognition memory for shapes. The secondary purpose was to test the conceptual coding hypothesis (Ellis, 1972). Two multivariate factorial experiments were conducted. In the first study, encoding was a between-groups factor; in the second study, encoding was a within-subjects factor. The other within-subjects factors investigated in both exp… Show more
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