Langston W
Department of Psychology, MTSU, Murfreesboro 37132, USA.
Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput. 1999 Feb;31(1):81-5. doi: 10.3758/bf03207696.
The generation effect occurs when people demonstrate better memory for material that they have generated than for material that they have merely read. The software described here allows students to participate in replications of generation effect experiments. The program can be used with its default settings to present simple experiments. I have used this feature in research methods courses to provide data for writing research reports. The program can also be modified to allow students to design and conduct their own variations of generation effect experiments.
当人们对自己生成的材料比对仅仅阅读过的材料表现出更好的记忆时,就会产生生成效应。这里描述的软件允许学生参与生成效应实验的复制。该程序可以使用其默认设置来呈现简单的实验。我在研究方法课程中使用了这个功能来为撰写研究报告提供数据。该程序也可以进行修改,以允许学生设计并开展他们自己的生成效应实验变体。