Citation

Kelley CM, Jacoby LL, Hollingshead A. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 1989; 15(6): 1101-1108.

Affiliation

Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2530308

Abstract

We studied the relation between performance on direct versus indirect tests of memory for modality. Subjects read or heard words in a mixed list and then were tested by visual perceptual identification (the indirect test) and direct report of items as read, heard, or new. There was a dependent relation between perceptual identification performance and modality judgments, in accord with the hypothesis that subjects base their judgments of modality on relative perceptual fluency. In Experiment 2, we attempted to change the degree of dependence by providing subjects with an alternative basis for modality judgments. Subjects given a mnemonic to encode modality exhibited less dependence between perceptual identification performance and modality judgments than did subjects who encoded modality incidentally. The relation between direct and indirect tests of memory for source characteristics depends on the basis used for each.

Language: en