LeCompte D C
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803, USA.
Mem Cognit. 1995 May;23(3):324-34. doi: 10.3758/bf03197234.
The revelation effect is a phenomenon of recognition memory in which words presented for a recognition decision are more likely to be identified as previously studied if they are initially disguised and are then somehow revealed to the subject. The goal of the present experiments was to determine whether the revelation effect has similar or different influences on the conscious recollection of a previous encounter with a test item and on the feeling of familiarity evoked by a test item. The process-dissociation procedure (Experiment 1) and the remember/know procedure (Experiment 2) were used to achieve this goal. The main findings of these experiments were that revealing an item at test (1) increased the feeling of familiarity associated with that item, especially if it was not previously studied, and (2) decreased conscious recollection of previously studied items. These data narrow the range of potential explanations of the revelation effect.
揭示效应是一种识别记忆现象，即如果用于识别判断的单词最初被伪装，然后以某种方式向受试者揭示，那么这些单词就更有可能被识别为之前学过的。本实验的目的是确定揭示效应对于之前遇到测试项目的有意识回忆以及测试项目引发的熟悉感是否具有相似或不同的影响。为实现这一目标，采用了过程分离程序（实验1）和记得/知道程序（实验2）。这些实验的主要发现是，在测试时揭示一个项目（1）会增加与该项目相关的熟悉感，尤其是在该项目之前未被学习过的情况下，（2）会减少对之前学过项目的有意识回忆。这些数据缩小了对揭示效应潜在解释的范围。
