Storage and verification stages in processing concepts
Cognitive PsychologyPublished 1 July 1971
Tom Trabasso, Howard Rollins, Edward Shaughnessy
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Abstract
A decision-tree analysis of hypothesis testing was studied in 10 experiments. College students verified concepts with different logical structures against instances. A Chronometric analysis indicated that storage and verification stages were separable. In storage, subjects represent content in an affirmative form. Negation is either transformed or used as an indicator to change a response. In verification, subjects are set to make identity matches between the coded representations of the concept and the exemplar. The coding and matching operations are serial and they are either self-terminating or exhaustive depending upon the logical structure of the concept. A general coding and matching operator model for processing successive inputs was developed. The model was generalized to the processing of positive and negative information in problem-solving and language-comprehension tasks.
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