Harris, Georgia (2019) Priming Effects in Short-term Cued Recall. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The current study investigated the effects of phonemic priming in short-term cued recall tasks. It expanded the work of Tehan and colleagues (1995, 1998, 2002) and filled gaps in literature, regarding the nature of phonemic priming and item interaction effects in word lists for cued recall. Using Tehan and Humphreys (1995) cued recall task, phonemic priming was used to influence recall, by decomposing phonemic codes of the target and foil items across filler items in a word list. Priming effects were compared across conditions when the phonological filler items were presented at different stages of the trial. The study measured three types of priming groups within experimental and control conditions, using Forty-two participants. Consistent with the hypotheses, significant priming effects were noted across foil and target priming groups in the control condition, when phonological neighbours were placed as filler items in the second word block. Equivalent priming effects were found across groups in the experimental condition, when phonological neighbours were placed as filler items in the first word block. This finding was inconsistent with the predictions based on prior research and contradicts the notion that phonemic codes are transient and priming effects dissipate rapidly. The current study has tested phonemic priming in cued recall tasks in a way that no study has achieved before, and thus provides new implications for distributed storage models of STM and future research.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Gerry Tehan |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2025 04:46 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Sep 2025 04:46 |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52387 |
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