Browsing by Subject "Recollection (Psychology)"
Now showing 1 - 10 of 10
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item An exploratory investigation of the nature of recovered childhood memories(Texas Tech University, 1998-08) Parker, Randy LanceThe unconscious was first studied in the 1600s, repression in the 1700s; and the therapeutic approach involving the recovery of repressed memories was introduced in the mid-1800s. Nevertheless, Freud is often credited with these discoveries. However, the contemporary definition of repression is markedly narrower than the one that Freud usually used, and its use has recently prompted a great deal of contentious debate regarding whether people have repressed, dissociated, suppressed, or simply forgotten memories of childhood sexual abuse, and some evidence suggests that it is possible to develop false memories of childhood sexual abuse. Recent research has also found that similar proportions of those with sexual or physical or emotional abuse histories report recovered memories of abuse. In addition, the majority of those within several college student samples have reported recovering memories of childhood events, suggesting that it may be normative to recover childhood memories. While the phenomenon of recovered childhood memory may be common, the mechanisms responsible for these memories are not well understood This study (N = 67 nonclinical participants with and without reported abuse histories) investigated the nature and characteristics of individuals' recovered childhood memories through the use of semi-structured interviews. It was found that nine different memory mechanisms (conscious and unconscious) appeared to be responsible for the recovered childhood memories that the participants reported. A history of abuse was not found to be related to quality of childhood memory, nor was recovering memories of childhood abuse. A history of abuse was related to current depressive symptoms, but recovering memories of abuse did not predict higher endorsement of depressive symptoms. The severity of the childhood abuse was also unrelated to the recovery of abuse memories. Finally, the findings suggested that recovered memories of neutral or positive childhood events were more likely to be rated as having been forgotten while negative events were more likely to be rated as having been repressed, dissociated, suppressed or habitual avoided. The implications of these findings for research and clinical practice in this area are discussed.Item An investigation of the relationship between cognitive resource availability and human memory performance(Texas Tech University, 1987-12) Morrison, Ronald WilliamNot availableItem The effect of language emotionality on recall : a preliminary study(2011-05) Czimskey, Natalie Marie; Marquardt, Thomas P.; Byrd, Courtney T.Ten male and 10 female participants were presented with six narrative paragraphs and six 10 word lists. Three of the paragraphs were emotional and three were neutral. Each of the paragraphs contained 20 information units and each word list included five neutral and five emotional words. Immediately following paragraph or word list presentation, the participants were asked to recall the stimuli. The mean percent of emotional units (i.e. units of information recalled from emotional paragraphs) recalled was significantly greater than the mean percent of neutral units recalled. Similarly, the mean percent emotional words recalled from word lists was significantly greater than the mean percent neutral words recalled from word lists. Percent recall was significantly greater for words than for paragraphs for both emotional and neutral stimuli. Results supported the hypothesis that emotional saliency increases verbal recall.Item The effect of phonological, semantic, and hybrid associates on accurate recall and false memories of adults who stutter : a preliminary study(2011-05) Delahoussaye, Amy Leigh; Byrd, Courtney T.; Sheng, LiThere are data to suggest that the phonological representations of young children who stutter are less specified than their typically fluent peers. The purpose of the present study is to determine if this apparent difference in phonological encoding persists in adults who stutter. Utilizing a false memory paradigm, nine adults who stutter (AWS) were asked to listen to and then recall/produce 12 lists of 12 words each. Each word list was comprised of either semantic, phonological or an equal number of semantic and phonological associates of a single, unpresented, critical ‘lure’ word. Three parameters of recall performance were measured across these three conditions: 1) number of accurately recalled productions, 2) number of lure intrusions and 3) number of other intrusions. AWS produced significantly more accurate recalls in the semantic condition than either the hybrid or phonological conditions, and significantly more lure intrusions in the phonological and hybrid conditions than the semantic condition, but there was no significant difference on measures of other intrusions. These results extend the findings with young children who stutter, and indicate that the phonological representations are less robust than the semantic representations in the lexicon of AWS.Item Phonological and semantic list learning with individuals with TBI(2011-05) Lindsey, Andre Michele; Harris, Joyce L.; Marquardt, ThomasThe purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which learning and recall are facilitated by semantic and phonological targets. A list-learning paradigm was administered to 10 individuals with a history of traumatic brain injury. Participants were asked to recall and identify words that were present on the list. The lists consisted of semantically related associate words and phonologically related associate words. Participants recalled significantly more semantically related associates than phonological associates. Demographic factors such as age, time-post injury, and educational attainment did not have a significant effect on the recall ability for either word target type. Word recognition ability also was not influenced by target type. The results of this study found adults with TBI use a semantic network following brain injury and that semantic targets are more beneficial for recall than phonological targets.Item Response availability as a function of massed and distributed practice and list differentiation(Texas Tech University, 1972-12) Watts, Doyle WarrenNot availableItem Sequencing ability as related to nonverbal language ability(Texas Tech University, 1969-05) Eastham, Penelope Johnsen.Item The effect of traditional hypnosis, alert hypnosis and task motivation suggestions on the recall of contextual material by college students(Texas Tech University, 1981-12) Stein, Valerie TNot availableItem The influence of motivation on the selective recall of nonsense syllables by hospitalized schizophrenics(Texas Tech University, 1968-08) Pinkston, Michael RayNot availableItem The spacing effect: a test of the Elmes and Bjork explanation(Texas Tech University, 1978-12) Smith, Randolph AlanNot available