The self-reference effect and mental cueing
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The Self-Reference Effect postulates that free recall of verbal cues is better when those cues have been processed with reference to the self than when processed in other ways. An experiment was performed among 272 college students to evaluate four types of mental cues with regard to their ability to support free recall. The results showed that the use of mental cues familiar to the person is part of the self-knowledge structure. This suggests that the self plays an important part in what we learn and recall and that familiar objects have well-organized representations in memory and can furnish sets of mental cues that stimulate remembering.
Publication Name: Social Cognition
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-016X
Year: 1992
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Factors controlling the advantage of self-reference over other-reference
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The results of two experiments prove that the self-reference effect (SRE) can be induced by stimuli which are not existing associates of person schemas. This shows that an important factor in determining SRE does not depend on the type of stimulus (noun or not), nor the type of information used in the encoding process (autobiographical or not), but on whether the processing requirements of the task make use of the differences in the amount of accumulated knowledge between self and other.
Publication Name: Social Cognition
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-016X
Year: 1992
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Conditional probability may be a flawed measure of associative strength
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Conditional probability is an imperfect measure of associative strength due to its failure to consider chance factors. This failure, which restricts the theoretical implications of conditional probability patterns, was validated through comparisons of obtained and expected probabilities of hypothetical and actual data. The Adjusted Ratio for Individual Sequences and conditional probability difference score are proposed for a more accurate measure.
Publication Name: Social Cognition
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-016X
Year: 1997
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