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Effects of pair collaboration and word‐frequency in recognition memory: A study with the remember‐know procedure
Author(s) -
ROSSIARNAUD CLELIA,
PIERONI LAURA,
SPATARO PIETRO,
CESTARI VINCENZO
Publication year - 2011
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.1467-9450.2011.00912.x
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , facilitation , word (group theory) , word lists by frequency , cognitive psychology , test (biology) , word recognition , social psychology , recognition memory , communication , natural language processing , cognition , linguistics , reading (process) , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , neuroscience , sentence , biology
Rossi‐Arnaud, C., Pieroni, L., Spataro, P. & Cestari, V. (2011). Effects of pair collaboration and word‐frequency in recognition memory: A study with the remember‐know procedure. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 52 , 516–523. The present study investigated the effects of pair collaboration and word‐frequency on recognition memory, using the “remember‐know” procedure. The aim was to test the predictions of the information‐exchange hypothesis (Clark, Hori, Putnam & Martin, 2000), which states that collaborative facilitation occurs when participants are able to share their recollective memories with other members of the group. Results showed that recognition performance was significantly better in the collaborative than in the individual condition, and better for low‐frequency than for high‐frequency words. The advantage of collaborating dyads was produced by an increase of correct hits, coupled with a significant reduction of false alarms. Furthermore, the analysis of the “remember” (R) and “know” (K) responses indicated that the effects of both pair collaboration and word‐frequency were larger on recollection than on familiarity processes. It is concluded that, in a collaborative condition, arguments based on the retrieval of the contextual details associated with the target words are more effective than those based on familiarity in increasing the proportions of correct hits. In addition, it is proposed that collaboration may lead to a reduction of the probability to accept new items on the basis of familiarity (K) responses.