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A COMPARISON OF VISUAL AND PSEUDO‐RECOGNITION THRESHOLDS AS A FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY AND RECENCY
Author(s) -
PYKE SANDRA,
AGNEW NEIL McK.,
PEZER VERA
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1967.tb01097.x
Subject(s) - audiology , psychology , interval (graph theory) , perception , response bias , visual perception , duration (music) , statistics , social psychology , mathematics , neuroscience , acoustics , medicine , physics , combinatorics
A series of experiments was conducted to investigate the effects of recency, duration of the interval following recency treatment, and frequency on recognition and pseudo‐recognition thresholds. Pre‐exposed stimuli were found to have significantly lower thresholds than those for material not pre‐exposed. There was no differential effect on performance with intervals of 30 and 60 sec between pre‐exposure and threshold determination. However, significantly lower thresholds were obtained with an interval of 30 sec as compared with an interval of 180 sec. Low‐frequency words were more influenced by recency of experience than high‐frequency stimuli. The effect of frequency on response bias was negligible in the pseudo‐perceptual situation and the trend favoured stronger response bias with low‐frequency material. The implications of the results are discussed.