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Not only encoding and retrieval: The enactment effect as a function of task preparation
Author(s) -
HELSTRUP TORE
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.tb00672.x
Subject(s) - encoding (memory) , psychology , task (project management) , function (biology) , action (physics) , differential effects , cognitive psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , computer science , medicine , physics , management , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , economics , biology , programming language
Three experiments examined the implications of adding a fourth preparation stage to the encoding‐retention‐retrieval stage analysis of memory. Action memory was selected as the research domain. The results demonstrated that systematic variation of the preparation stage yields new insights about enactment effects in memory. Together with effects of enactment in the preparatory stage, enactment was also shown to give differential effects in encoding and retrieval, with interactions between these three factors. The experimental results were discussed in relation to a strategy processing interpretation of action memory.