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Serial position effects; the influence of operation shift, ascribed position and spatial presentation order
Author(s) -
HELSTRUP TORE
Publication year - 1982
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.1467-9450.1982.tb00422.x
Subject(s) - psychology , position (finance) , serial position effect , serial learning , series (stratigraphy) , presentation (obstetrics) , cognitive psychology , stage (stratigraphy) , interpretation (philosophy) , function (biology) , power (physics) , computer science , medicine , paleontology , recall , free recall , finance , radiology , economics , biology , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , programming language
Seven experiments, all focused on serial position phenomena, showed the usual primacyrecency pattern to be easily disrupted. The theoretical assumption that learning operations lose power as a function of continuous use was refuted on empirical grounds. Repeated observations revealed how difficult it is to represent spatial series on the basis of randomized temporal inputs. A two‐stage interpretation of serial learning was claimed to be compatible with the experimental findings: Stage I involves item differentiation, Stage II integration of the differentiated items.