Citation

Kraut AG, Smothergill DW, Farkas MS. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1981; 7(6): 1303-1311.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, American Psychological Association)

DOI

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PMID

6458653

Abstract

Mere observation of 30 presentations of a colored form results in slower reaction time responses to the familiarized stimulus than to a comparable novel stimulus. Prior research suggest that this result is due to two subsidiary effects of repetition: alertness decrement and encoding facilitation. Four experiments were conducted to compare the effects of stimulus repetition on colors and words. The two-factor theory of repetition was found to hold for words as well as for colors; for words, in contrast to colors, encoding facilitation was found to be stronger than alertness decrement.

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