Primacy and Recency Effects Found Using Affective Word Lists

Tulving described an effect of retrograde amnesia in a free-recall task of word lists, produced by inserting items having priority in recall. Other authors confirmed the amnesic effect without giving instructions for priority both in recall and in recognition tasks. The effect was explained by Tulving as a premature termination of encoding processes. The similarity between these experiments and the researches aimed at reproducing amnesia by emotional trauma led us to hypothesize that the two phenomena might be due to the same functional mechanisms. We have organized a free-recall task of word lists into which emotional items were inserted. Our aim was to verify whether with these experimental conditions Tulving's results would be reproduced. The obtained data show amnesic effects in free recall; nevertheless, they do not seem to confirm closely the experimental hypothesis. Lastly, changes in primacy and recency effects produced by emotional items are analyzed.

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Affective Words and the Company They Keep: Studying the accuracy of affective word lists in determining sentence and word valence in a domain-specific corpus

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing ◽

10.1109/taffc.2020.3005613 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Nadine Braun ◽

Martijn Goudbeek ◽

Emiel Krahmer

Keyword(s):

Domain Specific ◽

Word Lists ◽

Affective Word

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Effect of Word Familiarity on Long-Term Recency

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1988.63.3.955 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 955-959 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Koichi Sato

Keyword(s):

Free Recall ◽

Recency Effect ◽

Distractor Condition ◽

Recall Condition ◽

Recency Effects ◽

Word Lists ◽

Word Familiarity ◽

Recall Paradigm

This experiment examined the effect of word familiarity on recency effects in two paradigms, the immediate recency effect in the immediate free-recall paradigm and the long-term recency effect in the continuous-distractor paradigm. Subjects studied word lists. In the immediate free-recall condition, words were presented continuously, and subjects were asked for free recall immediately after presentation of each list. In the continuous-distractor condition, each word was followed by a summation task of 30 sec. After the last summation task for each list, subjects were asked for free recall. Familiarity influenced immediate recency and long-term recency in the same way. This result suggests that the same mechanisms underlie immediate recency and long-term recency effect

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Speeded Probed Recall Is Affected by Grouping

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000302 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 62 (6) ◽

pp. 385-394

Author(s):

Sergio Morra ◽

Valentina Epidendio

Keyword(s):

Serial Order ◽

Word Lists ◽

Order Representation ◽

Interstimulus Intervals ◽

Gradient Models

Abstract. Most of the evidence from previous studies on speeded probed recall supported primacy-gradient models of serial order representation. Two experiments investigated the effect of grouping on speeded probed recall. Six-word lists, followed by a number between 1 and 6, were presented for speeded recall of the word in the position indicated by the number. Grouping was manipulated through interstimulus intervals. In both experiments, a significant Position × Grouping interaction was found in RT. It is concluded that the results are not consistent with models of order representation only based on a primacy gradient. Possible alternative representations of serial order are also discussed; a case is made for a holistic order representation.

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