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Four experiments examined Smith’s (1986) hypothesis that environmental context (EC)-dependent recognition memory would be greater following shallow processing than following deep processing. All experiments found effects of level of processing manipulations, yet none found evidence of EC-dependent recognition. Experiment 3 included recognition reaction times as well as accuracy levels. It was concluded that Smith’s (1986) EC-dependent recognition memory findings must have been due to some characteristic of the incidental learning task used in that study other than its shallow processing level.
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The research reported here was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant 1 R01 MH39977-01 awarded to Steven M. Smith. Experiment 4 was based on a master’s thesis by Edward Vela. The experiments were presented in part at the 1987 annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association in New Orleans, LA. Thanks are due to Nancy Cohen for collecting the data for Experiments 1 and 2.
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Smith, S.M., Vela, E. & Williamson, J.E. Shallow input processing does not induce environmental context-dependent recognition. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 26, 537–540 (1988). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330115
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