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| Preferred Name | repetition decrement effect |
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A memory phenomenon observed when an item presented twice is less well recognized than an item presented only once.
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| definition | A memory phenomenon observed when an item presented twice is less well recognized than an item presented only once. |
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| bibliographicCitation | Rosner, T. M., López-Benítez, R., D’Angelo, M. C., Thomson, D., & Milliken, B. (2018). Remembering “primed” words : A counter-intuitive effect of repetition on recognition memory. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 72(1), 24‑37. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000139
Collins, R., Rosner, T., & Milliken, B. (2018). Remembering « primed » words : The effect of prime encoding demands. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 9‑23. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000138
Collins, R. N., Milliken, B., & Jamieson, R. K. (2020). MINERVA-DE : An instance model of the deficient processing theory. Journal of Memory and Language, 115, 104151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104151
Collins, R. N., & Milliken, B. (2019). The repetition decrement effect in recognition memory : The influence of prime-target spacing. Acta Psychologica, 197, 94‑105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.05.009
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| scopeNote | In the basic paradigm for demonstrating the repetition decrement effect, researchers present participants with pairs of words. The first word in a pair is the prime (written in green) and the second is the target (written in red). During the first phase of the experiment, subjects are asked to read aloud only the target words. In some cases the words in the pairs are identical (ALARM - ALARM), in other cases they are different (ALARM - BRICK). Participants then take a surprise recognition test in which they have to distinguish target words from new words. The results indicate that repeated words are less well recognized than words presented only once (Collins & Milliken, 2019).
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| creator | Frank Arnould
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| created | June 25, 2021
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