The Influence of Synonym Substitution on Integrated Recognition Memory
Richard G. Peterson, Curtis W. McIntyre · The American Journal of Psychology · 1974
Synonyms and their frequency (high, intermediate, low, and mixed high and low) were manipulated to determine whether information about specific lexical content is retained during integrated recognition memory. The results suggest that it is and that mixing or lowering the frequency of the lexical content of sentences during acquisition can disrupt or weaken the phenomenon known as integrated recognition memory. Recent work on memory has refocused interest on the general problem of conceptual abstraction and, more specifically, on the question of whether specific information about exemplars is retained once conceptual