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Title: Concreteness and Item-to-List Context Associations in the Free Recall of Items Differing in Context Variability
Language: English
Authors: Marsh, Richard L., Meeks, J. Thadeus, Hicks, Jason L.
Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Nov 2006 32(6):1424-1430.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 7
Publication Date: 2006
Document Type: Journal Articles
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Descriptors: Organizations (Groups), Memory, Context Effect, Experiments
ISSN: 0278-7393
Abstract: Context variability can be defined as the number of preexperimental contexts in which a given concept appears. Following M. Steyvers and K. J. Malmberg's (2003) work, the authors have shown that concepts that are experienced in fewer preexperimental contexts generally are better remembered in episodic memory tasks than concepts that are experienced in a greater number of preexperimental contexts. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that low context variability confers its memorial advantage because of stronger item-to-list context associations as compared with high context variability. Three experiments that use environmental context changes from study to test demonstrate that the low context variability advantage is eliminated when item-to-list context associations are not available because of environmental changes at test. In addition, the low context variability advantage is eliminated when inward processing at study prevents the formation of item-to-list context associations.
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