Information Reduction as Item-general Strategy Change

.................................................................................................................................1 Zusammenfassung..................................................................................................................2 Acknowledgements................................................................................................................3 Publications Included.............................................................................................................4 Introduction...................................................................................................................5 Measuring Information Reduction................................................................................6 Theoretical Goals..........................................................................................................7 Predictions of Item-specific and Item-general Perspectives ......................................10 Results..................................................................................................................................11 Manipulation check – Representation strength was successfully varied....................11 Reduction of the string length effect over blocks (1)..................................................11 Equal rates of transfer errors for strings of different frequencies (2)..........................13 Equal fixations to the irrelevant letters for strings with different frequencies (3)......13 Time course – abruptly and at the same point in time for all strings (4)....................14 Item-general Information Reduction at the cost of errors (5).....................................14 Summary and Discussion.....................................................................................................16 Conclusions based on work in the included publications ..........................................16 Broadening the Perspective on Strategy Change........................................................17 Item-general learning of the triplets..................................................................17 Data-driven and yet item-general?.....................................................................20 Studying Information Reduction after it happened outside the lab?.................22 Voluntary vs. involuntary performance changes...............................................22 Conclusion............................................................................................................................24 References ...........................................................................................................................25 Erklärung zum Zustandekommen der Arbeit........................................................................33