Adaptation-level theory and the free recall of mixed-frequency lists
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1982-01-01
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Subjects learned a list containing both high-frequency (common) and low-frequency (rare) words after learning five lists of either high-or low-frequency words. As predicted by adaptation-level theory, preexposure to lists at one frequency made words at that same frequency more difficult to learn relative to words at other frequencies. © 1982, Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.
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Rubin, DC, and S Corbett (1982). Adaptation-level theory and the free recall of mixed-frequency lists. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 20(1). pp. 27–29. 10.3758/BF03334792 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18990.
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David C. Rubin
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My main research interest has been in long-term memory, especially for complex (or "real-world") stimuli. This work includes the study of autobiographical memory and oral traditions, as well as prose. I have also studied memory as it is more commonly done in experimental psychology laboratories using lists. In addition to this purely behavioral research, which I plan to continue, I work on memory in clinical populations with the aid of a National Institute of Mental Health grant to study PTSD and on the underlying neural basis of memory the aid of a National Institute of Aging grant to study autobiographical memory using fMRI.
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