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LSU Master's Theses

2007

Recognition memory

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Source Memory And The Picture Superiority Effect, Noelle L. Brown Jan 2007

Source Memory And The Picture Superiority Effect, Noelle L. Brown

LSU Master's Theses

Two experiments were conducted to explore whether a picture superiority effect exists in source memory. To investigate this issue, participants studied a mixed list of pictures and words. Experiment 1 tested people's memory for an organizational source where half the pictures and words were studied on the left or right side of a computer monitor. In Experiment 2 an associative source was tested. During encoding half of the pictures and words were associated with a female voice and the other half with a male voice. At test, participants' memory for the location or voice of the pictures and words was …


Source Memory, Subjective Awareness, And The Word Frequency Mirror Effect, Benjamin A. Martin Jan 2007

Source Memory, Subjective Awareness, And The Word Frequency Mirror Effect, Benjamin A. Martin

LSU Master's Theses

The current study investigated the subjective states of recollection and familiarity in source memory. Participants studied low and high frequency words, presented in one of two sources, and were then asked to make source decisions and subjective judgments of recollection and familiarity at test. Half of participants were asked to identify the source of an item before the subjective awareness judgment (SM-first group), while the other half of participants made a source decision to an item after judging it as recollected or familiar (RF-first group). The test order manipulation affected participants’ patterns of responding. Participants in the RF-first group tended …