The repetition of errors in recall: a review of four 'fragmentation' experiments.

ABSTRACT: This review reanalyses the data from four experiments originally designed to test the fragmentation hypothesis. Participants were asked to recall triple or quadruple associates, cued by each of their components in turn, and to guess if they could not remember. There were many errors in recall and many of those errors were repetitions of previous errors. This reanalysis focuses, not on the fragmentation hypothesis, but on the repetition of errors. It works backwards through sequences of test trials to discover the best prior match to the responses on each trial. It reports frequencies of different categories of repetition, conditional probabilities of repetition, correct recalls, and the probability of repetition in relation to the lag between trial and match in the test sequence. These res

SUBMITTER: Laming D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9363359 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature