Tests of a cognitive-resource-allocation account of the bizarreness effect.

A study was conducted to examine the role of cognitive-resource allocation in obtaining the memory advantage for bizarre relative to common information. Data were drawn from four experiments that used the secondary-task method. It is noted that experiments one and two examined the relationship bet...

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Publicado en:Journal of General Psychology Vol. 127; no. 2; pp. 117 - 145
Autores principales: Worthen, James B., Garcia-Rivas, Gabriella, Green, Charles R.
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd April 2000
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