Department of Psychology, Oberlin College, Severance Laboratory, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2010 Dec;38(8):1122-36. doi: 10.3758/MC.38.8.1122.
In the present study, we tested the ability to remember the temporal proximity of two unrelated events that had happened within 7 days of one another. In three experiments, 1,909 participants judged whether pairs of news events, ranging in age from 1 month to about 6 years, had occurred within a week of each other and, if not, how far apart they had occurred. Some event pairs were related, and others were unrelated. For unrelated event pairs, same-week and separation judgments were very poor. Accuracy was much greater for both kinds of judgments when the events were related. Participants often guessed the separation of unrelated event pairs, whereas they frequently deduced the separation or remembered the proximity of related event pairs. For both types of pairs, the participants reported using the strength of the memories or the general period in which the events had occurred.
在本研究中，我们测试了参与者记住在彼此相距 7 天内发生的两个不相关事件的时间接近程度的能力。在三个实验中，1909 名参与者判断新闻事件对的年龄从 1 个月到大约 6 年不等，它们是否在一周内彼此发生，以及如果没有，它们相隔多远。一些事件对是相关的，而另一些则是不相关的。对于不相关的事件对，同一周和分离判断的准确性非常差。当事件相关时，这两种判断的准确性都大大提高。当事件不相关时，参与者经常猜测事件之间的间隔，而当事件相关时，他们经常推断出事件之间的间隔或记住事件之间的接近程度。对于这两种类型的事件对，参与者都报告说他们使用了记忆的强度或事件发生的大致时间段。
