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Unrepresentativeness of studies on memory of verbal material
Author(s) -
BLAKAR ROLV MIKKEL
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1973.tb00083.x
Subject(s) - psychology , nonsense , sentence , cognitive psychology , representativeness heuristic , norwegian , verbal memory , linguistics , social psychology , cognition , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , gene
Blakar, R. M. Unrepresentativeness of studies on memory of verbal material. Scand. J. Psychol., 1973, 14, 9–11. ‐The dominant traditions in studying memory of verbal material are criticized for lack of representativeness in that the stimulus material is particularistic, “meaningless” or presented out of relevant contexts, and presented more than once. When 27 letters were arranged in three lists of nine trigrams as (1) nonsense syllables, (2) common Norwegian words, and (3) a meaningful sentence of these words, and presented once in this order to seven subjects, mean number of letters recalled was 10, 23, and 27, respectively, indicating that the traditional and still dominant methods of research strip memory of one of its most effective means: the rules for grasping and organizing meaning.