Distinctiveness

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IN MY PSYCHOLOGY COURSEWORK I NEED TO INCLUDE A KEY STUDY ABOUT DISTINCTIVENESS OF OBJECTS THAT DON'T FIT IN WITH SCHEMAS AND HOW THEY AFFECT RECALL. PLEASE HELP I CAN'T FIND ONE

-- Stacey Donnan (JackQuigley3@aol.com), May 05, 2004

Answers

Plugging "distinctiveness," "recall" and "schemas" into PsycInfo I found the following articles in recent journals. You might try a more careful search of PsycInfo:

Ingram, R. E., Partridge, S., Scott, W., & Bernet, C. Z. (1994). Schema specificity in subclinical syndrome depression: Distinctions between automatically versus effortfully encoded state and trait depressive information. Cognitive Therapy & Research, 18, 195-209.

Kikuno, H. (1993). Schema of coins and memory for features of coins. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 77, 1235-1238.

Kikuno, H. (1991). Memory for distinctive and common features of coins. Psychological Reports, 69, 867-870.

Herbert, D. M., & Burt, J. S. (2004). What do Students Remember? Episodic Memory and the Development of Schematization. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 77-88.

Farrar, M. J., & Boyer-Pennington, M. (1999). Remembering specific episodes of a scripted event. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 73, 266-288.

McGuire, M. T. (2003). Surprise, Uncertainty, and Mental Structures. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 191, 483-484.

Varner, L. J., & Ellis, H. C. (1998). Cognitive activity and physiological arousal: Processes that mediate mood-congruent memory. Memory & Cognition, 26, 939-950.

Smith, S. S., & Kihlstrom, J. F. (1987). When is a schema not a schema? The "Big Five" traits as cognitive structures. Social Cognition, 5, 26-57.

Tracy, R. J., Pabis, M., & Kilburg, D. (1997-1998). The effect of schematic context on mental imagery. Imagination, Cognition & Personality, 17, 191-214.

Singer, M., & MacKenzie, A. (2002). Differential encoding of the two fundamental ethical standards. Social Behavior & Personality, 30, 765-771.

Hunt, R. R., Ausley, J. A., & Schultz, E. E. (1986). Shared and item- specific information in memory for event descriptions. Memory & Cognition, 14, 49-54.

Heilbrun, A. B. (1986). Androgyny as type and androgyny as behavior: Implications for gender schema in males and females. Sex Roles, 14, 123-139.

Aaker, J., & Schmitt, B. (2001). Culture-dependent assimilation and differentiation of the self: Preferences for consumption symbols in the United States and China. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32, 561-576.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@cox.net), May 06, 2004.


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