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THE ROLE OF BLOCKED PRESENTATION IN THE ELICITATION OF A CATEGORICAL STRATEGY OF REMEMBERING WITH RETARDED ADULTS
Author(s) -
McCONKEY ROY,
HERRIOT PETER
Publication year - 1974
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.2044-8295.1974.tb01415.x
Subject(s) - recall , categorical variable , psychology , presentation (obstetrics) , free recall , facilitation , cognitive psychology , serial position effect , developmental psychology , neuroscience , statistics , medicine , mathematics , radiology
Blocked presentation of categorical material has been found to increase the number of items recalled by retarded subjects. Three experiments are reported, aimed at discovering the reasons for this facilitation. With visually and simultaneously presented items in a multi‐trial free‐recall procedure, it was found that (1) although blocked presentation of categorical material facilitated recall, the provision of category cues did not do so; (2) blocked presentation of ‘unrelated’ items did not facilitate recall; and (3) those subjects who could form their own blocked presentation improved their recall as a result. It was concluded that blocked presentation facilitates recall because it draws attention to previously existing inter‐item associations.