Configural Properties in Sentence Memory I
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چکیده
Two theories of human memory, Gestalt theory and assoclationism, are contrasted with respect to their predictions about the cued recall of sentences. The Gestalt theory, with its assumption of emergent propemes, predicts that test probes which maintain the configural properties of the studied sentences should be superior to probes that do not. The associative theory, with its assumption of independent associatlons, is shown to yield just the opposite prediction. The associative theory is confirmed in Exps. 1 and 2, but Gestalt theory is supported in Exps. 3 and 4 where the Ss were required to generate continuations to the sentence as part of the study task.
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