保持期間が書記的手がかり再生課題における環境的文脈依存効果に与える影響

Does Retention Interval Influence the Environmental Context Dependency in a Graphemic Cued Recall Task?

Yamada Kyoko

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第三部, 教育人間科学関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part 3, Education and human science

The environmental context dependency effect refers to the phenomena that memory performance is better when the environmental context at encoding is reinstated at the test than when it is not reinstated. Conventional wisdom states that the reinstatement of the environmental context does not affect memory performance when better cues, such as item cues, are available (e.g., Godden & Baddeley, 1980). I investigated whether the effect of the environmental context on the performing a graphemic cued recall task with item cues depends on the retention interval. Forty, graphemic to-beremembered items were presented to participants incidentally and the participants engaged in a cued recall task. The retention interval was one week in Experiment 1 and 10 minutes in Experiment 2. The environmental context cue was an odor. Reinstatement of the environmental context cues facilitated performance only in Experiment 1. This result suggests that environmental context cues are effective in graphemic cued recall when the effects of item cues are reduced by a long retention interval.

environmental context dependent effect

outshining hypothesis

item cues

graphemic cued recall task

環境的文脈依存効果

アウトシャイン仮説

項目手がかり

書記的手がかり再生課題

Psychology [ 140 ]

jpn

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

[ISSN] 1346-5562

[NCID] AA11625039