Mental Recall

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Outstanding memories: the positive and negative effects of nudes on memory.

A picture of a nude isolated in a series of pictures of clothed models was quite memorable, but when compared with a clothed picture, the nude impaired memory for background picture derails as well as pictures immediately following the nude (anterograde ...
Stephen R Schmidt (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200203)
outstanding-memories-positive-negative-effects-nudes-memory.asp

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Mediators of age-related differences in recollective experience in recognition memory.

This study examined states of awareness with the Remember/Know paradigm during verbal recognition memory in young and old adults. Following the presentation of a word list, subjects undertook a recognition test and indicated whether they could ...
David Clarys, Michel Isingrini, Kamel Gana (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200203)
mediators-age-related-differences-recollective-experience-recognition.asp

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The development of organizational strategies in children: evidence from a microgenetic longitudinal study.

The authors examined memory on a sort-recall task in children 8 to 12 years of age. Children were first classified as either strategic or nonstrategic on a sort-recall pretest and then participated in an 11-week microgenetic study involving nine ...
Matthias Schlagmüller, Wolfgang Schneider (J Exp Child Psychol, 200203)
development-organizational-strategies-children-evidence-microgenetic.asp

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Changes in explicit memory associated with early dementia in adults with Downs syndrome.

BACKGROUND: A modified version of the Selective Reminding Test (SRT) (Buschke 1973) was used to examine the changes in memory that occur with early-stage dementia of the Alzheimers type (DAT) in adults with intellectual disability (ID) and Downs syndrome ...
S J Krinsky-McHale, D A Devenny, W P Silverman (J Intellect Disabil Res, 200203)
changes-explicit-memory-associated-early-dementia-adults-down-s.asp

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Strategic regulation of grain size in memory reporting.

To increase their report accuracy, rememberers may either withhold information that they feel unsure about or provide relatively coarse information that is unlikely to be wrong. In previous work (A. Koriat & M. Goldsmith, 1996c), the authors delineated ...
Morris Goldsmith, Asher Koriat, Amit Weinberg-Eliezer (J Exp Psychol Gen, 200203)
strategic-regulation-grain-size-memory-reporting.asp

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The influence of cue-task association and location on switch cost and alternating-switch cost.

Task-switching performance is strongly influenced by whether the imperative stimulus uniquely specifies which task to perform: Switch cost is substantial with bivalent stimuli but is greatly reduced with univalent stimuli, suggesting that available ...
Katherine D Arbuthnott, Todd S Woodward (Can J Exp Psychol, 200203)
influence-cue-task-association-location-switch-cost-alternating.asp

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Strategies of text retrieval: a criterion shift account.

This study scrutinized peoples ability to apply different strategies to randomly intermixed immediate and delayed test items. In three experiments, participants first read one set of stories. Later, they read more stories, and after each one, answered ...
Murray Singer, Nathalie Gagnon, Eric Richards (Can J Exp Psychol, 200203)
strategies-text-retrieval-criterion-shift-account.asp

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The food intake recording software system is valid among fourth-grade children.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the validity of the Food Intake Recording Software System (FIRSSt) against observation of school lunch and a 24-hour dietary recall (24hDR); and to test the effects of sequencing, observation and a hair sample as a bogus pipeline on ...
Tom Baranowski, Noemi Islam, Janice Baranowski, Karen W Cullen, Dawnell Myres, Tara Marsh, Moor Carl de (J Am Diet Assoc, 200203)
food-intake-recording-software-system-valid-fourth-grade-children.asp

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The dynamic time course of stereotype activation: activation, dissipation, and resurrection.

Stereotypes activated upon initial exposure to a stereotyped individual may dissipate as the exposure continues. Participants observing a videotaped interview with a Black person showed activation of the stereotype of Black people following 15 s of ...
Ziva Kunda, Paul G Davies, Barbara D Adams, Steven J Spencer (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200203)
dynamic-time-course-stereotype-activation-activation-dissipation.asp

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Language comprehenders mentally represent the shapes of objects.

We examined the prediction that people activate perceptual symbols during language comprehension. Subjects read sentences describing an animal or object in a certain location. The shape of the object or animal changed as a function of its location (e.g., ...
Rolf A Zwaan, Robert A Stanfield, Richard H Yaxley (Psychol Sci, 200203)
language-comprehenders-mentally-represent-shapes-objects.asp