TY - JOUR
T1 - List length and the bizarreness effect
T2 - Support for a hybrid explanation
AU - Worthen, James B.
AU - Marshall, Philip H.
AU - Cox, Kimberlee B.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This research was supported in part by a Research Enhancement Grant to the first author from the University of Texas at Brownsville in Partnership with Texas Southmost College. Thanks are extended to Antonia Luna and John Serrano for their assistance in the collection of pilot data for the present study. Thanks are extended to Johannes Engelkamp, Neal Kroll, Glenn V. Nakamura, and Bret M. Roark for comments helpful in the preparation of this manuscript.
PY - 1998/6
Y1 - 1998/6
N2 - The dual-component distinctiveness and expectation-violation explanations of bizarreness effects were compared to a newly proposed hybrid model in a single experiment investigating the influence of list length and list composition on recall for common and unusual verbal information. Although list composition was determined to be an essential variable, the results suggest that list composition does not influence memory directly as a retroactive organizational or retrieval cue. The results do, however, support the notion that list composition influences memory indirectly by altering intralist expectations. Although the results support neither the dual-component nor the expectation-violation explanation as originally formulated, the results are in keeping with the hybrid model which incorporates both intralist and extralist sources of distinctiveness and an expectation-violating mechanism.
AB - The dual-component distinctiveness and expectation-violation explanations of bizarreness effects were compared to a newly proposed hybrid model in a single experiment investigating the influence of list length and list composition on recall for common and unusual verbal information. Although list composition was determined to be an essential variable, the results suggest that list composition does not influence memory directly as a retroactive organizational or retrieval cue. The results do, however, support the notion that list composition influences memory indirectly by altering intralist expectations. Although the results support neither the dual-component nor the expectation-violation explanation as originally formulated, the results are in keeping with the hybrid model which incorporates both intralist and extralist sources of distinctiveness and an expectation-violating mechanism.
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U2 - 10.1007/s004260050021
DO - 10.1007/s004260050021
M3 - Article
C2 - 9689909
AN - SCOPUS:0031610592
VL - 61
SP - 147
EP - 156
JO - Psychological Research
JF - Psychological Research
SN - 0340-0727
IS - 2
ER -