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The tachistoscopic recognition of letters under whole and partial report procedures as related to intelligence
Author(s) -
Mosley James L.
Publication year - 1978
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.2044-8295.1978.tb01637.x
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , encoding (memory) , cognitive psychology , short term memory , term (time) , developmental psychology , audiology , cognition , working memory , neuroscience , medicine , physics , management , quantum mechanics , economics
Investigations of the short‐term memory task performance of retarded individuals have indicated that these individuals demonstrate a deficit in the mechanisms necessary for the acquisition, storage and/or retrieval of information. The present study examined the tachistoscopic letter recognition task performance of retarded and non‐retarded individuals under a partial report and a whole report procedure. The results revealed that the retarded subjects did significantly more poorly relative to the non‐retarded subjects under both procedures. The data were interpreted as indicating that the retarded subjects were inefficient in their strategy to make the simultaneous input task manageable. Further, the data provided no support for the suggestion that a visual‐to‐auditory encoding process exists between iconic and short‐term memory.