A DISSIMILARITY ANALYSIS FOR ORGANIZATION IN MULTITRIAL CUED RETRIEVAL
Yotaro TAKANO · Japanese Psychological Research · 1978
The dissimilarity measure was developed to specify the units of organization in free recall and the quantitative relationship between those units. The dissimilarities obtained from the recall protocols for a categorized list were analyzed by hierarchical cluster analysis and nonmetric multidimensional scaling, and the results indicated that the dissimilarity measure had some empirical validity. In addition, the operation of the multitrial cued retrieval (MCR) procedure and of the adjustment of the dissimilarity measure was examined and revealed to be effective in eliminating some distractors for measurement.