Saint-Aubin Jean, LeBlanc Jacinthe
Département de Psychologie, Université de Moncton, New Brunswick.
Can J Exp Psychol. 2005 Dec;59(4):219-27. doi: 10.1037/h0087477.
In immediate serial recall, high-frequency words are better recalled than low-frequency words. Recently, it has been suggested that high-frequency words are better recalled because of their better long-term associative links, and not because of the intrinsic properties of their long-term representations. In the experiment reported here, recall performance was compared for pure lists of high- and low-frequency words, and for mixed lists composed of either one low- and five high-frequency words or the reverse. The usual advantage of high-frequency words was found with pure lists and this advantage was reduced, but still significant with mixed lists composed of five low-frequency words. However, the low-frequency word included in a high-frequency list was recalled just as well as high-frequency words. Results are challenging for the associative link hypothesis and are best interpreted within an item-based reconstruction hypothesis, along with a distinctiveness account.
在即时系列回忆中，高频词比低频词更容易被回忆起来。最近，有人提出高频词更容易被回忆起来是因为它们有更好的长期联想联系，而不是因为它们长期表征的内在属性。在本文报道的实验中，比较了高频词和低频词纯列表以及由一个低频词和五个高频词组成的混合列表（或反之）的回忆表现。在纯列表中发现了高频词通常具有的优势，而在由五个低频词组成的混合列表中，这种优势有所降低，但仍然显著。然而，高频词列表中包含的低频词与高频词的回忆效果一样好。这些结果对联想联系假说提出了挑战，最好在基于项目的重构假说以及独特性解释的框架内进行解释。
