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Procedural dependence in action memory: Effects of verb form and individual vs group conditions
Author(s) -
HELSTRUP TORE,
MOLANDER BO
Publication year - 1996
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.1467-9450.1996.tb00665.x
Subject(s) - psychology , verb , encoding (memory) , action (physics) , recall , cognitive psychology , significant difference , social psychology , test (biology) , developmental psychology , linguistics , paleontology , philosophy , physics , statistics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , biology
Two experiments explored whether the magnitude of the enactment effect in action memory (i. e., higher recall with motor than with non‐motor encoding) may depend upon the use of individual or group testing procedures. Nonmotor encoding instructions, requiring the subjects to listen to orally presented action items, were compared to instructions which also required enactment. With encoding treated as a within‐subject factor, the observations failed to reveal any significant difference between individual and group testing. With encoding treated as a between‐subject factor, the results showed an interaction between test and encoding conditions, such that an enactment effect was found only with group testing. Different support value for auditory cues in group and individual test situations was assumed to account for this difference. In a third experiment the indicative and imperative verb forms were compared. An interaction was observed, showing that in Norwegian, enacted verbs were remembered better when presented in the indicative than in the imperative. No corresponding difference was found under non‐enactment conditions. For this finding, a social interaction interpretation was offered.