AN ANALYSIS OF SPONTANEOUS CUES IN SENTENCE MEMORY
Kazuko Kojo · The Japanese journal of psychology · 1980
The present study was designed to analyze the encoding types of the recall cues constructed by the subjects while memorizing 28 concrete and abstract sentences, and to assess whether the difference in recall depends on the encoding type for sentence components. The main results were: (1) Encoding types of recall cues, which were determined by the subjects' evaluation of the relation between the cue and the sentence component, were ranked in frequency as follows: Association>Category>Synonym> Imagery=Opposite=Rhyme; (2) As a whole, the recall did not differ significantly by the encoding type, but in abstract sentences it differed significantly: The recall was better for CAT- and ASS-encoding types than for SYN- or IMA-encoding type in abstract sentences.