Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, 455 W. Lindsey Street, Norman, OK, 73019, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2019 May;47(4):683-695. doi: 10.3758/s13421-019-00894-9.
How recognition memory is mediated has been of interest to researchers for decades. But the apparent consensus implicating continuous mediation has been challenged. McAdoo, Key, and Gronlund (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,2018. Advanced online publication) demonstrated that recognition memory can be mediated by either discrete or continuous evidence, depending on target-filler similarity. The present paper expands on this research by showing that different recognition tasks also can be mediated by different evidence. Specifically, recognition memory was mediated by continuous evidence in a ranking task, but by discrete evidence in a confidence-rating task. We posit that participants utilize a control process that induces a reliance on discrete or continuous evidence as a function of efficiency (Malmberg, 2008) to suit the demands of the task.
几十年来,研究人员一直对识别记忆是如何被介导的感兴趣。但是,连续介导的明显共识受到了挑战。麦卡杜、基和格隆伦德(《实验心理学杂志:学习、记忆与认知》,2018 年,在线预发表)的研究表明,识别记忆可以通过离散或连续的证据来介导,具体取决于目标-填充符的相似性。本文通过展示不同的识别任务也可以通过不同的证据来介导,进一步扩展了这一研究。具体来说,在排序任务中,识别记忆是通过连续的证据来介导的,而在信心评级任务中则是通过离散的证据来介导的。我们假设,参与者利用控制过程,根据效率(Malmberg,2008)来诱导对离散或连续证据的依赖,以适应任务的需求。