THE EFFECTS OF FAMILIARITY ON THE PERCEPTUAL RECOGNITION AND CATEGORIZATION OF VERBAL INFORMATION

Abstract

The effects of stimulus familiarity on the processing of stimulus and memorial information were investigated in two tasks: one which supposedly required only the perceptual recognition of each stimulus word (E task), and one which required a meaningful categorization of each stimulus word (C task). A comparison of the data for the two tasks and a consideration of the slopes of the RT functions obtained in the E task indicated that these functions reflected a memory process that follows recognition, rather than the recognition process itself. It was this memory process, rather than recognition, which seemed to be sensitive to familiarity. In the C task it appeared that familiarity affected both the retrieval and testing of the stored information about the meanings of the stimulus words.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0656715

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