TY - JOUR
AU1 - Graesser, Arthur C.
AU2 - Woll, Stanley B.
AU3 - Kowalski, Daniel J.
AU4 - Smith, Donald A.
AB - Describes 2 experiments in which 186 university students listened to stories containing scripted activities (e. g., eating at a restaurant) and later received a memory test on the actions. The actions varied in typicality with respect to the scripts. Memory performance at short retention intervals supported the representational assumptions of a "script pointer plus tag" hypothesis that predicts better memory discrimination for atypical than for typical actions and no memory discrimination for very typical actions. Results of Exp I indicate that the relatively poor memory for typical actions was not an artifact of Ss' circumventing memory retrieval; Ss did not prematurely decide that the typical actions "must have been presented." Exp II compared recall and recognition memory after different retention intervals. Assessments of both correct retrieval and guessing differed between recall and recognition tests. For both types of tests, the generic scripts played a more important role in guiding retrieval as the retention interval increased. (42 ref)
TI - Memory for typical and atypical actions in scripted activities
JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
DO - 10.1037/0278-7393.6.5.503
DA - 1980-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/memory-for-typical-and-atypical-actions-in-scripted-activities-C286Mb0piM
SP - 503
EP - 515
VL - 6
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -