Ahmad Fahad N, Hockley William E
a Department of Psychology , Wilfrid Laurier University , Waterloo , ON , Canada.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2017 Sep;70(9):1768-1791. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1205110. Epub 2016 Jul 14.
We examined whether processing fluency contributes to associative recognition of unitized pre-experimental associations. In Experiments 1A and 1B, we minimized perceptual fluency by presenting each word of pairs on separate screens at both study and test, yet the compound word (CW) effect (i.e., hit and false-alarm rates greater for CW pairs with no difference in discrimination) did not reduce. In Experiments 2A and 2B, conceptual fluency was examined by comparing transparent (e.g., hand bag) and opaque (e.g., rag time) CW pairs in lexical decision and associative recognition tasks. Lexical decision was faster for transparent CWs (Experiment 2A) but in associative recognition, the CW effect did not differ by CW pair type (Experiment 2B). In Experiments 3A and 3B, we examined whether priming that increases processing fluency would influence the CW effect. In Experiment 3A, CW and non-compound word pairs were preceded with matched and mismatched primes at test in an associative recognition task. In Experiment 3B, only transparent and opaque CW pairs were presented. Results showed that presenting matched versus mismatched primes at test did not influence the CW effect. The CW effect in yes-no associative recognition is due to reliance on enhanced familiarity of unitized CW pairs.
我们研究了加工流畅性是否有助于对单元化的实验前关联进行关联识别。在实验1A和1B中，我们通过在学习和测试时将配对中的每个单词分别呈现在不同屏幕上来最小化知觉流畅性，但复合词（CW）效应（即CW配对的命中率和误报率更高，辨别力无差异）并未降低。在实验2A和2B中，通过在词汇判断和关联识别任务中比较透明（如hand bag）和不透明（如rag time）的CW配对来检验概念流畅性。对于透明CW，词汇判断更快（实验2A），但在关联识别中，CW效应在不同CW配对类型之间没有差异（实验2B）。在实验3A和3B中，我们研究了增加加工流畅性的启动是否会影响CW效应。在实验3A中，在关联识别任务的测试中，CW和非复合词配对之前呈现匹配和不匹配的启动词。在实验3B中，只呈现透明和不透明的CW配对。结果表明，在测试时呈现匹配与不匹配的启动词不会影响CW效应。是-否关联识别中的CW效应归因于对单元化CW配对增强的熟悉度的依赖。
