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AN INVESTIGATION OF THE INCREASED RELIANCE ON FAMILIARITY IN ASSOCIATIVE RECOGNITION OF UNITIZED COMPOUND WORD PAIRS
| العنوان: | AN INVESTIGATION OF THE INCREASED RELIANCE ON FAMILIARITY IN ASSOCIATIVE RECOGNITION OF UNITIZED COMPOUND WORD PAIRS |
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| المؤلفون: | Ahmad, Fahad Naveed |
| المصدر: | Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) |
| بيانات النشر: | Scholars Commons @ Laurier |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| المجموعة: | Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario: Scholars Commons@Laurier |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | associative recognition, familiarity, unitization, compound word pairs, two-alternative forced-choice test, age-related associative deficit, Cognition and Perception, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Experimental Analysis of Behavior |
| الوصف: | Unitization refers to when two components are integrated or combined into a single unit. So the whole is more familiar than the parts (Graf & Schacter, 1989). Previous researchers have shown unitization of unrelated word pairs can occur by the use of compound definition. As support, they have found unitization to increase reliance on familiarity in associative recognition. The purpose of this PhD dissertation was to examine the effects of unitization of preexperimental associations on associative recognition. The effects of associative recognition of unitized compound word (CW) pairs can serve as a useful benchmark to compare to that of other methods of unitization. In Chapter 2, I present findings from Manuscript 1 consisting of five experiments in which I investigated the effects of unitization of CW pairs on associative recognition. In Experiment 1, I found a CW effect as in higher hit rates and false alarm rates for CW compared to noncompound word (NCW) pairs. In addition, there was no discrimination difference between CW and NCW pairs. In Experiments 2a and 2b, I show from both a non-speeded and speeded forced-choice test that when response bias is minimized, participants show a discrimination advantage for CW pairs. In Experiments 3a and 3b, I show that item recognition is reduced for CW compared to NCW pairs, but when components of the CW and NCW pairs are emphasized at encoding, similar item recognition is shown for both pair types. Lastly, in Experiment 5, I show from receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves that there is a discrimination advantage for repeated NCW pairs compared to CW and NCW pairs. In Chapter 3, I present findings from Manuscript 2 consisting of three experiments in which I investigated the effects of unitization of CW pairs on associative recognition in older adults. In Experiment 1, older adults showed a discrimination advantage for CW pairs. Moreover, when presentation time was reduced young adults still did not show a discrimination advantage for CW pairs. Finally, in ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1726; https://scholars.wlu.ca/context/etd/article/2828/viewcontent/Fahad_PhD_Dissertation_Wlu_April_29.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1726 https://scholars.wlu.ca/context/etd/article/2828/viewcontent/Fahad_PhD_Dissertation_Wlu_April_29.pdf |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.18D7E01E |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
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