- Title
- Examining the origins of the word frequency effect in episodic recognition memory and its relationship to the word frequency effect in lexical memory
- Creator
- Heathcote, Andrew
- Relation
- Heathcote AJ, Ditton EJ, Mitchell K, 'Word frequency and word likeness mirror effects in episodic recognition memory', Memory and Cognition, 34 826-838 (2006) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2006.07.001
- Relation
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26700
- Resource Type
- dataset
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- Two experiments investigated Estes and Maddox’ theory (2002) that word frequency mirror effect in episodic recognition memory is due to word likeness rather than frequency of experience with a word. In Experiment 1, sixteen first year psychology students at the University of Newcastle studied lists of high and low frequency words crossed with high-neighbourhood-density and low-neighbourhood-density words and were given an episodic recognition test and asked to rate words as new or old and provide ratings of confidence according to a three point scale with six possible responses: sure old, probably old, possibly old, possibly new, probably new and sure new. Experiment 2 included twenty-three first year psychology students at the University of Newcastle who were tested using lexical decision task lists of words and nonwords. Testing was undertaken on a computer that presented the stimuli and recorded the participants’ responses using a program written in Turbo Pascal 6.0 with millisecond accurate timing. The dataset contains one Microsoft Excel file in .xls format containing data for Experiments 1 and 2.
- Subject
- episodic recognition memory; lexical memory; mirror effect; attention likelihood theory; word frequency; episodic memory; lexical access; recognition (learning); neighbourhoods; orthography; memory
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/807086
- Identifier
- uon:7300
- Rights
- Access to this dataset is supplied on condition that the principal investigator associated with this dataset is credited in any publications that use the data.
- Language
- eng
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