论文信息 - Errors in a recognition memory task are a U-shaped function of word frequency

Errors in a recognition memory task are a U-shaped function of word frequency

College students rated verbal items for either familiarity or meaningfulness and were then tested for their recognition memory of rated items from four critical classes: nonwords and words appearing less than 1 time, 1–10, and more than 40 times per million words of written text (Thorndike-Lorge, 1944). Following either rating task, recognition errors were found to be a U-shaped function of word frequency and nonwords were recognized least well. Although a U-shaped function was expected on the basis of what is known about word frequency effects in general, there is significant disagreement as to the mechanism(s) responsible for this relationship.

Carol L. Curt | Eugene B. Zechmeister | E. B. Zechmeister | Julie A. Sebastian

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