Effects of IAR occurrence during learning on response time during subsequent recognition.

Abstract

List 1 (E words), (6) words not associated with any List 1 words (control or C words), and (c) words repeated from List 1 (R words). For each List 2 word S 1 indicated whether or not it had occurred in List 1. Speed for correct responses to C words was significantly greater than for correct responses to E words. Speed for correct responses to R words was significantly greater than for incorrect responses to E words. These results are interpreted by a model of recognition memory performance within a signal detection framework. Choice times are proposed as a useful index of the occurrence of implicit associative responses. Underwood (1965) has proposed that when a verbal unit is perceived, the representational response (RR) made is likely to elicit an implicit associative response (IAR). In an experiment relevant to this