Open AccessCOGNITIVE STYLES AND MEMORY FOR FACES 1
Author(s) -
Messick Samuel,
Damarin Fred
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
ets research bulletin series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2333-8504
pISSN - 0424-6144
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1963.tb00314.x
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , consistency (knowledge bases) , cognition , memory test , cognitive psychology , cognitive style , test (biology) , human memory , subject (documents) , recall test , field (mathematics) , free recall , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , paleontology , neuroscience , library science , pure mathematics , biology
Accuracy in the incidental recall of photographed human faces can be predicted from the subject's cognitive styles and biases: (a) Subjects who were field‐dependent on an embedded figures test recalled more faces correctly than did the field‐independent; (b) subjects who were narrow categorizers on the Pettigrew Category‐Width Test had better recall than had broad categorizers; and (c) subjects who thought the photographed persons were relatively young did better than those who thought they were older. These three kinds of stylistic consistency were mutually independent. Some of these styles may determine memory for all sorts of stimuli and some may be relatively specific to memory for faces.