Process-dissociation procedure: a testable model for considering assumptions about the stochastic relation between consciously controlled and automatic processes.

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This paper presents an extension of the process-dissociation procedure with wordstem completion, which makes possible the measurement of the stochastic relationship between consciously controlled and automatic processes. By means of an indirect wordstem completion test, the conditional probabilities of conscious remembering with and without automatic processes can be successfully determined. A multinomial model for the evaluation of this extended process-dissociation procedure is presented. This model makes the distinction between voluntary and involuntary conscious memory processes possible and has been applied to two experiments discussed in this paper. The results show that the assumption of stochastic independence is often violated, albeit not as strongly as predicted by the redundancy or exclusivity model variants. Two conscious processes were found, voluntary and involuntary conscious memory processes, each with a different probability of occurrence.

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Author/s: Vaterrodt-Plünnecke, Bianca (B); Krüger, Thomas (T); Bredenkamp, Jürgen (J);

Affiliation: Psychological Institute, University of Bonn, Römerstr. 164, D-53117 Bonn, Germany. vaterrodt@uni-bonn.de

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Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Experimental psychology (Exp Psychol), published in Germany. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-; vol 49 (issue 1) : pp 3-26

Dates: Created 2002/04/26; Completed 2002/05/28; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 11975147, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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