Event Title
The Effects of Salience and Chunking on Visual Memory
Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
1-5-2014 1:00 PM
End Date
1-5-2014 2:00 PM
Project Type
Poster- Restricted to Campus Access
Description
The present experiment examined how chunking and salience affect visual memory. Eighty undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (a) chunking and high salience, (b) chunking and low salience, (c) no chunking and high salience, and (d) no chunking and low salience. In each of these conditions, the participants were asked to view a series of images and perform a recall task in which they indicated whether or not they have seen a given image. It was predicted that the chunking and high salience condition would result in the most accurate recall, followed by the chunking and low salience condition and then the no chunking high salience condition. We expected that the no chunking and low salience condition would result in the least accurate memory recall.
Faculty Sponsor
Martha Arterberry
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Psychology Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
83
The Effects of Salience and Chunking on Visual Memory
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
The present experiment examined how chunking and salience affect visual memory. Eighty undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (a) chunking and high salience, (b) chunking and low salience, (c) no chunking and high salience, and (d) no chunking and low salience. In each of these conditions, the participants were asked to view a series of images and perform a recall task in which they indicated whether or not they have seen a given image. It was predicted that the chunking and high salience condition would result in the most accurate recall, followed by the chunking and low salience condition and then the no chunking high salience condition. We expected that the no chunking and low salience condition would result in the least accurate memory recall.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/202