The Effects of Stimulus Similarity on Frequency Judgments of Presented and Nonpresented Words

Tussing, Audrey A.; Greene, Robert L.

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“…Number of study-list presentations of semantic associates of studied words influences memory positively (Leicht, 1968;Shaughnessy & Underwood, 1973;Tussing & Greene, 1999). In Experiment 1 we examine a similar range of memory effects for phonological associates (pairs of words with initial phonemes in common).…”

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“…We increased the number of study repetitions of phonological associates to five for two reasons: (1) Others have obtained false recognition effects for semantic associates with more than three repetitions (Hall & Kozloff, 1970;Tussing & Greene, 1999), and we were interested in whether the``familiarity'' effects continued to accumulate beyond three repetitions of phonological associates. (2) The magnitude of frequency estimation effects in Experiment 1 was small in absolute terms.…”

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“…However, a pre-recognition, word-activation mechanism that operates automatically during early stages of processing spoken words ought to enhance correct recognition under appropriate conditions. It has been shown that the number of study-list presentations of words that are semantic associates of test words influences correct recall, recognition, and the judged frequency of words (Leicht, 1968;Shaughnessy & Underwood, 1973;Tussing & Greene, 1999). For example, Tussing and Green (1999) gave their participants a forced-choice frequency judgement test.…”

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Implicit word activation during pre‐recognition processing influences correct recognition and estimates of presentation frequency

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False recognition of new test words is higher for experimental lures (e.g., universal) with initial phonemes identical to studied words (e.g., university) than for control lures. A proposed mechanism to explain this phenomenon involves implicit activation of potential solution words during the brief period of uncertainty immediately following onset of a spoken study word. Two experiments examined whether the presumed pre-recognition processing during the stimulus discovery phase of spoken word identification increased familiarity of a studied word, thereby increasing correct recognitions and estimates of presentation frequency. Critical test words were presented a single time during study in Experiment 1, and their phonologically related words were presented one, two, or three times. Correct recognition and frequency estimates of targets were enhanced by multiple presentations of associates sharing initial phonemes. Experiment 2 provided a replication with five repetitions of phonological associates during study and two study presentations of critical test words. The results of these two experiments confirmed a necessary theoretical consequence of the implicit activation mechanism that has been invoked to explain the effects of phonological similarity on false recognition.

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