TY - JOUR
T1 - Strengthening associations
T2 - duration, attention, or relations?
AU - Bradley, Margaret M.
AU - Glenberg, Arthur M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by NIMH Grant MH26643 and University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Committee Grants 190244 and 180299 to Arthur Glenberg. Experiment 3 was previously reported at the May, 1982, meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. We thank Tony Gino and Tom Kraus for assisting with the data collection. Reprint requests may be sent to either author at the Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc. 53706.
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1983/12
Y1 - 1983/12
N2 - Associations formed between two words when subjects were induced to maintain the two words by overt Type I rehearsal in a secondary, incidental learning task. Duration of the rehearsal activity, however, failed to strengthen the association (improve memory for cooccurrence), despite use of transfer-appropriate recognition tests and sensitive paired-associate learning transfer tasks used to measure associative strength. In addition, varying the amount of cognitive capacity allocated to the rehearsal task also failed to produce evidence of increases in associative strength with longer durations of Type I rehearsal. These results disconfirmed a hypothesis suggesting that the automaticity of the rehearsal process was responsible for the lack of duration effects. The results are consistent with the idea that association formation is dependent upon processing a relation between two words, and that the strength of the association is a function of the number of different relations processed, rather than being solely dependent on either sheer duration of processing or the amount of cognitive capacity devoted to processing.
AB - Associations formed between two words when subjects were induced to maintain the two words by overt Type I rehearsal in a secondary, incidental learning task. Duration of the rehearsal activity, however, failed to strengthen the association (improve memory for cooccurrence), despite use of transfer-appropriate recognition tests and sensitive paired-associate learning transfer tasks used to measure associative strength. In addition, varying the amount of cognitive capacity allocated to the rehearsal task also failed to produce evidence of increases in associative strength with longer durations of Type I rehearsal. These results disconfirmed a hypothesis suggesting that the automaticity of the rehearsal process was responsible for the lack of duration effects. The results are consistent with the idea that association formation is dependent upon processing a relation between two words, and that the strength of the association is a function of the number of different relations processed, rather than being solely dependent on either sheer duration of processing or the amount of cognitive capacity devoted to processing.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-5371(83)90385-7
DO - 10.1016/S0022-5371(83)90385-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0142127969
SN - 0022-5371
VL - 22
SP - 650
EP - 666
JO - Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
JF - Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
IS - 6
ER -