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The effect of memory impairment on verbal recognition scores and the marking of acoustic and semantic abstractors
Author(s) -
Warren E. W.,
Groome D. H.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1983.tb00603.x
Subject(s) - psychology , coding (social sciences) , recognition memory , cognitive psychology , audiology , memory test , cognition , statistics , psychiatry , medicine , mathematics
A test of verbal recognition, yielding separate scores for semantic and acoustic distractor errors as well as a simple recognition score, successfully discriminated between various groups of brain‐damaged, depressive, and normal subjects in a sequence predictable from their pathology. However, the profile of distractor errors was similar for all groups tested, with a consistent tendency for subjects to make more semantic errors than acoustic errors in all cases. It was concluded that the failure to find qualitative coding differences was probably a consequence of the procedure used and did not necessarily contradict previous findings that amnesics were less effective than normal subjects in coding semantically.