Friedman William J
Department of Psychology, Oberlin College, Ohio 44074, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2007 Jan;35(1):66-72. doi: 10.3758/bf03195943.
Order codes are one of the three main types of information that have been hypothesized to underlie memory for the times of life events. Published evidence for the theory, however, has come exclusively from research in which brief retention intervals have been used. In the first of two studies, 101 adults judged the order of pairs of movies released 5-14 years ago, half of which shared a common major actor. There was no evidence that related films could be ordered more accurately than unrelated ones. In the second study, 88 students were presented with in-class announcements that were either related or unrelated to an earlier announcement. Three weeks later,they judged the order of the pairs of announcements. There was no difference between the accuracy for the related and the unrelated pairs. The findings do not support the proposal that the automatic creation of order information at the time of encoding contributes to autobiographical memory.
顺序编码是被假设为构成生活事件时间记忆基础的三种主要信息类型之一。然而，该理论的已发表证据仅来自使用短暂保留间隔的研究。在两项研究的第一项中，101名成年人判断了5至14年前发行的电影对的顺序，其中一半电影有一位共同的主要演员。没有证据表明相关电影的排序比不相关电影更准确。在第二项研究中，88名学生收到了与之前公告相关或不相关的课堂公告。三周后，他们判断了公告对的顺序。相关对和不相关对的准确性没有差异。这些发现不支持在编码时自动创建顺序信息有助于自传体记忆的提议。
