The Effect of Exposure Duration and Amount of Information on Retention in Short-Term Memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10123516 |
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| Authors | Laurence Miller (Western Washington State College, corresponding author), Lynne Miller, Lynne Chavelle Miller (Western Washington State College) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-99 |
| Publication date | 1976-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of General Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1309 • E-ISSN: 1940-0888 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00221309.1976.9710869 |
| OpenAlex | W2045926124 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The effect of various combinations of exposure duration and amount of material on short-term retention was examined. The Ss were 600 male and female undergraduate college students. The exposure time was either held constant for each quantity of material (two seconds with one consonant trigram, four seconds with two trigrams, six seconds with three trigrams) or was varied with the same number of trigrams (three trigrams with either a six-, nine-, or 12-second exposure duration). Rehearsal of the material was inhibited or facilitated by filling the retention interval with a task that prevented rehearsal or by allowing Ss to sit silently. Rehearsal facilitated recall with each number of trigrams and with each exposure duration. However, the magnitude of this facilitation was determined by the amount of material. The greatest increase in retention occurred with two trigrams. Although recall with three trigrams showed a statistically significant increase as exposure duration increased from six to 12 seconds, the magnitude of this increase was small and the level of retention was still low
Acoustics · Audiology · Biology · Chromatography · Cognitive psychology · Duration (music · Exposure duration · Facilitation · Physics · Recall · Retention time · Speech recognition · Term (time · Trigram · Chemistry · Cognitive Functions and Memory · Computer Science · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods · Mathematics · Medicine · Memory Processes and Influences · Neuroscience · Psychology · Toxicology
| Highly cited | No |
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