Xinjiang Normal University.
East China Normal University.
J Gen Psychol. 2020 Jan-Mar;147(1):62-89. doi: 10.1080/00221309.2019.1635074. Epub 2019 Aug 7.
Recognition without cued recall (RWCR) is a phenomenon that participants can effectively discriminate cues that resemble studied items from the ones that do not, even when they are not able to recall a studied item which is cued at test. It has been shown that a word's features could give rise to the RWCR effect. In the present study, by using this paradigm, we systematically investigated whether particular types of features alone, including orthographic, phonological, and semantic features, could evoke feelings of familiarity. By taking the advantage of a logographically scripted language (i.e., Chinese) to dissociate phonological from orthographic features in Experiment 1 and vice versa in Experiment 2, we examined whether phonological and orthographic features could induce a significant RWCR effect. In Experiment 3, by using a cross-language design to dissociate sematic features from orthographic and phonological features, we further explored whether separate semantic features could elicit the RWCR effect. A significant RWCR effect was found in all these experiments. These results have demonstrated that familiarity could be based on separate phonological, orthographic, and semantic features. The results are further discussed in relation to several theoretical explanations of familiarity.
无提示再认（RWCR）是一种现象，即使参与者无法回忆起在测试中被提示的学习项目，他们也能够有效地辨别出与学习项目相似的线索和不相似的线索。已经表明，一个词的特征可能会导致 RWCR 效应。在本研究中，我们通过使用这种范式，系统地研究了单独的特定类型的特征，包括正字法、语音和语义特征，是否能够引起熟悉感。通过利用一种表意文字脚本语言（即中文），在实验 1 中从正字法上分离语音特征，在实验 2 中从语音上分离正字法特征，我们检验了语音和正字法特征是否能够引起显著的 RWCR 效应。在实验 3 中，通过使用跨语言设计，从正字法和语音特征上分离语义特征，我们进一步探讨了单独的语义特征是否能够引起 RWCR 效应。在所有这些实验中都发现了显著的 RWCR 效应。这些结果表明，熟悉感可能基于单独的语音、正字法和语义特征。结果还与熟悉感的几种理论解释进行了讨论。
