memory abilities

abilities involved in remembering information, as assessed by tests of free recall (recall of words in any order), serial recall (recall of words in a fixed order), paired-associates learning (recall of a word paired with the word presented), and recognition memory (skill in stating correctly whether a presented word was previously presented on some list). Psychometric data suggest that, typically, various memory abilities are only weakly related to each other. Moreover, implicit memory is largely independent of explicit memory.

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Psychology term of the day

January 31st 2025

group effect

a research finding specific to the group of individuals to which a participant belongs. A group effect could appear in an assigned subset, such as a treatment or intervention, or in a naturally occurring subset, such as age level or classroom. For example, a researcher might be interested in a group effect of a specific reading intervention, or in a group effect of book reading for students in the current decade who may be reading less than previous sets of students owing to more common use of the computer and television.