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Publication Date: 2005-Sep
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Theoretical Correlations and Measured Correlations: Relating Recognition and Recall in Four Distributed Memory Models
Kahana, Michael J.; Rizzuto, Daniel S.; Schneider, Abraham R.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v31 n5 p933-953 Sep 2005
This article addresses the relation between item recognition and associative (cued) recall. Going beyond measures of performance on each task, the analysis focuses on the degree to which the contingency between successful recognition and successful recall of a studied item reflects the commonality of memory processes underlying the recognition and recall tasks. Specifically, 4 classes of distributed memory models are assessed for their ability to account for the relatively invariant correlation (approximately equal to 0.5) between successive recognition and recall. Basic versions of each model either under- or overpredict the intertask correlation. Introducing variability in goodness-of-encoding and response criteria, as well as output encoding, enabled all 4 models to reproduce the moderate intertask correlation and the increase in correlation observed in 2 mixed-list experiments. This model-based analysis provides a general theoretical framework for interpreting contingencies between successive memory tests.
Descriptors: Correlation, Recognition (Psychology), Recall (Psychology), Models, Memory, Experimental Psychology, Associative Learning, Test Items
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