Document Type
Thesis
Date of Degree Completion
Summer 1973
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Experimental Psychology
Committee Chair
Philip Tolin
Second Committee Member
Donald Eugene Guy
Third Committee Member
Larry M. Sparks
Abstract
Eighteen subjects performed an item-recognition task, involving memorized lists of 1, 2, and 3 nonsense forms, at one of 2 levels of stimulus complexity. Analyses of reaction times as a function of set size and serial position suggested that (a) when the memorized list consisted of simple figures, subjects engaged in a serial exhaustive search, and (b) when the memorized items were complex, the assumption of a simple serial search was untenable.
Recommended Citation
Delegans, George M., "The Effect of Stimulus Complexity on Retrieval of Information from Memory" (1973). All Master's Theses. 2094.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/2094