Event frequency estimations for non-semantic items

Author

Max Ingersoll, Ithaca College

Periodical Title

Modern Psychological Studies

Volume

1

Number

1

Page Numbers

pages 37-40

Department

Dept. of Psychology

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Date

1992

Abstract

In order to further clarify the roles of labeling and semantic processing in event frequency encoding, fifty-six undergraduate students were tested on their memory for frequency of sounds. One half of the subjects were presented with familiar sounds (i.e. a telephone ring or wind chimes) and the other half with single musical notes or tones. The use of tones was to defeat the attempts at semantic labeling of the stimuli. It was found that subjects in the familiar sounds condition displayed a significant ability at estimating event frequency. Subjects in the pure tones condition, however, displayed no such ability.

Subject

Psychology

Discipline

Psychology

Document Type

article

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

4 leaves

Language

English

Call Number

BF1 .M63 v. 1 no. 1 1992

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Recommended Citation

Ingersoll, Max (1992) "Event frequency estimations for non-semantic items," Modern Psychological Studies: Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholar.utc.edu/mps/vol1/iss1/9