Long Term Recency Demonstration

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Long Term Recency Demonstration

• Langston,
• Cognitive Psychology

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Instructions

• You are going to see a list of word pairs.
• Pay attention to the words and try to remember as
  many as you can.
• You should only rehearse the current word pair
  (if you have time to rehearse).
• You are also going to see math problems. Compute
  the answers to the math problems (in your head)
  and write them on your paper.
• When the instruction to recall appears, write
  down all of the words you can. Write the words in
  any order.

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• 43
• X 6

4

• 56
• X 5

5

• 44
• X 5

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GAME-PHONE
7

• 52
• X 3

8

• 61
• X 9

9

• 38
• X 4

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CLOCK-SHELF
11

• 76
• X 3

12

• 87
• X 4

13

• 39
• X 8

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HOUSE-BOX
15

• 42
• X 6

16

• 91
• X 7

17

• 36
• X 4

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BOOK-TREE
19

• 32
• X 6

20

• 27
• X 4

21

• 34
• X 7

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CHAIR-TAPE
23

• 72
• X 9

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• 19
• X 9

25

• 81
• X 6

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TOY-PEN
27

• 82
• X 2

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• 15
• X 6

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• 42
• X 9

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BAG-SHOE
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• 17
• X 3

32

• 82
• X 5

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• 75
• X 3

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DOOR-PLUG
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• 27
• X 8

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• 16
• X 4

37

• 72
• X 9

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SIGN-BALL
39

• 21
• X 7

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• 26
• X 3

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• 49
• X 4

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GLOVE-DISK
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• 76
• X 8

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• 51
• X 6

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• 23
• X 4

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• 67
• X 5

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RECALL THE LIST
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Data Analysis

• Well score by items. By each pair give yourself
  0, 1, or 2
• GAME-PHONE
• CLOCK-SHELF
• HOUSE-BOX
• BOOK-TREE
• CHAIR-TAPE
• TOY-PEN
• BAG-SHOE
• DOOR-PLUG
• SIGN-BALL
• GLOVE-DISK

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Data Analysis

• Based on Glanzer and Cunitz (1966), what would we
  expect?

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Data Analysis

• Based on Glanzer and Cunitz (1966), what would we
  expect? Maybe just a little recency with 20
  seconds of distraction (or none).

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Data Analysis

• Based on Bjork and Whitten (1974) we would
  actually expect the graph below (with recency).

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Data Analysis

• Lets chart our data

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End Long Term Recency Demonstration