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Text memory: Recalling Twice, using different perspectives

Mémoire des textes: Rappel répété aprés changement de perspective

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Three hundred College students read a 760 word text under one of two instructed perspectives. After full recall, an additional recall (squeeze) was requested under either the same (unchanged) or the alternative perspective. The first recall confirmed earlier results: a strong bias towards perspective related ideas. The second recall yielded substantial additional material. It was expecially effective in recalling alternative perspective related ideas and this most markedly so if the instructions were to recall using the alternative perspective. These results confirm and complement the results of Anderson & Pichert (1978) in so far as it is both the chance of a second recall as well as the change in perspective that raises the amount of recalled material.

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Trois cent étudiants avaient á lire un texte de 760 mots, la moitié d’entre aux avec consigne de le comprendre dans une perspective donnée et l’autre moitié de le comprendre dans une rappel écrit du texte complet puis un rappel des idées oubliées lors du premier rappel, avec indication soit de la perspective de lecture, soit de la perspective complémentaire. Le premier rappel a confirmé le résultat d’études antérieures, c’est à dire la prépondérance des idées liées à la perspective donnée pour la lecture. Les idées additionnelles lors du second rappel ont été surtout liées à la perspective non présentée lors de la lecture, ce fait étant plus marqué lorsque cette perspective (complémentaire) était explicitement indiquée. Ces résultats complètent ceux de Anderson & Pichert (1978) concernant l’effet du rappel additionnel sur les idées supplémentaires non seulement après changement de perspective mais même quand la perspective est inchangée.

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This research was partly supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (No 1.629-0.82). The authors acknowledge helpful comments on an earlier version by Andrew Mackinnon.

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Borland, R., Flammer, A. & Wearing, A.J. Text memory: Recalling Twice, using different perspectives. Eur J Psychol Educ 2, 209–217 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03172728

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