The Composition of Episodic Memory.

Abstract

The primary purpose of the study was to examine the interrelationships among a number of episodic memory tasks, with a special interest in determining the correlations among various attributes of memory. The attributes investigated included imagery, associative, acoustic, temporal, affective, and frequency. The tasks were free recall, paired associates, serial, verbal-discrimination, classical recognition, and memory span, as well as less frequency used tasks. The 200 college-student subjects were tested for 10 sessions, and 28 different measures of episodic memory were obtained from the tasks. In addition, five measures of semantic memory were available. All scores were initially intercorrelated. Measures of episodic memory and semantic memory were generally unrelated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA040696

Entities

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  • Benton J. Underwood
  • Robert A. Malmi
  • Robert F. Boruch

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  • Northwestern University

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  • Human Systems

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  • Psychology

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