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The serial position effect and different error types in anticipation learning
Author(s) -
HEIM JAN,
REIN JAN G.
Publication year - 1977
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.1467-9450.1977.tb00265.x
Subject(s) - anticipation (artificial intelligence) , serial position effect , psychology , task (project management) , recall , association (psychology) , position (finance) , affect (linguistics) , audiology , serial learning , statistics , cognitive psychology , social psychology , free recall , communication , artificial intelligence , mathematics , computer science , medicine , management , finance , psychotherapist , economics
.— Minor modifications of the usual serial anticipation procedure did not affect the well‐known Serial Position Effect (SPE), while the errors, i.e. Intra‐list‐Intrusions (ILI) and Failure‐TeRespond (FTR), showed deviations from the usual distributions. It was therefore concluded that the SPE should not be analysed in terms of different error types, ILI and FTR. Transfer‐to‐position measured by means of a number‐syllable paired association (PA) task, and a free‐recall test of the original serial anticipation list measured after the termination of the PA‐task showed a skewed and a symmetrical trend respectively. It was suggested that response‐learning accounted for the symmetrical component of the SPE while association‐to‐position, contrary to prevailing views, was responsible for the skewed component.