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ACCESSION NUMBER: 1981-07061-001
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal-Article
MEDIA TYPE: Print-Paper
AUTHOR: Tyler,-Sherman-W; Hertel,-Paula-T; McCallum,-Marvin-C; Ellis,-Henry-C
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Tyler,-Sherman-W: U New Mexico, Albuquerque
TITLE: Cognitive effort and memory.
PUBLICATION YEAR: 1979
SOURCE: Journal-of-Experimental-Psychology:-Human-Learning-and-Memory. 1979 Nov; Vol 5(6): 607-617
URL-JOURNAL: http://www.apa.org/journals/xlm.html
PUBLISHER: US: American Psychological Assn.
URL-Publisher: http://www.apa.org
ISSN (PRINT VERSION): 0096-1515
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER: doi:10.1037//0278-7393.5.6.607
LANGUAGE: English
ABSTRACT: Suggests that the concept of cognitive effort in memory is both useful and important. Cognitive effort is defined as the engaged proportion of limited-capacity central processing. Using 80 undergraduates in 4 experiments, it was hypothesized that this variable might have important memorial consequences and be a potential confounding factor in levels-of-processing paradigms. Exp I tested this possibility using 2 types of incidental-learning tasks factorially combined with 2 degrees of effort. High effort led to better recall than low effort, but level-of-processing effects were nonsignificant. Exp II demonstrated the feasibility of using performance on a secondary task as an independent criterion for measuring effort, and Exps III-IV ruled out alternative accounts of effort effects. A reliable levels-of-processing effect was obtained in Exp IV, in which the incidental-learning tasks were blocked. (18 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2002 APA, all rights reserved)
KEY CONCEPTS: cognitive effort, word recall, college students
MAJOR DESCRIPTORS: *Cognitive-Processes; *Recall-Learning; *Words-Phonetic-Units
CLASSIFICATION CODE: 2340-Cognitive-Processes; 2340; 23
POPULATION: Human
SPECIAL FEATURE: References; Peer-Reviewed
UPDATE CODE: 19810401
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