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Similarity and contrast in memory for relations

1978; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 6; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3758/bf03198239

1532-5946

Ian Begg,

Child and Animal Learning Development

The paper reports four experiments concerned with memory for sets of categorically related or unrelated nouns, as a function of the extent to which initial processing focused on categorical or distinctive features of the nouns. The general finding is that distinctive features are valuable for later intracategory discrimination in recall and recognition, but categorical features are not, as judged by cued recall, recognition, measures of association between items, and categorical intrusion errors. A theoretical framework, based on the diagnostic value of features for various classifications, is offered as an account of the results.