The Distinctiveness of the Word-Length Effect

Autor/inn/en	Hulme, Charles; Neath, Ian; Stuart, George; Shostak, Lisa; Surprenant, Aimee M.; Brown, Gordon D. A.
Titel	The Distinctiveness of the Word-Length Effect
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32 (2006) 3, S.586-594 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Experimental Psychology; Serial Learning; Recall (Psychology); Word Lists; Word Recognition; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Experimentelle Psychologie; Serielles Lernen; Abberufung; Wortliste; Worterkennung; Analogiemodell
Abstract	The authors report 2 experiments that compare the serial recall of pure lists of long words, pure lists of short words, and lists of long or short words containing just a single isolated word of a different length. In both experiments for pure lists, there was a substantial recall advantage for short words; the isolated words were recalled better than other words in the same list, and there was a reverse word-length effect: Isolated long words were recalled better than isolated short words. These results contradict models that seek to explain the word-length effect in terms of list-based accounts of rehearsal speed or in terms of item-based effects (such as difficulty of assembling items). (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10