Bizarreness effect

Last updated

Bizarreness effect is the proposed tendency of bizarre material to be better remembered than common material. [1] The effect does not occur in all contexts, and the set of all material must vary in bizarreness for it to emerge. [2] Some scientific research suggests it does not exist, or that it in fact worsens recollection. [3]

Contents

Causes

McDaniel and Einstein argue that bizarreness intrinsically does not enhance memory in their paper from 1986. They claim that bizarre information becomes distinctive. It is the distinctiveness that according to them makes encoding easier. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bäckman, Lars; Nyberg, Lars (24 August 2009). Memory, Aging and the Brain: A Festschrift in Honour of Lars-G ran Nilsson. Psychology Press. p. 41. ISBN   978-0-203-86666-5.
  2. ↑ Geraci, Lisa; McDaniel, Mark A.; Miller, Tyler M.; Hughes, Matthew L. (November 2013). "The bizarreness effect: evidence for the critical influence of retrieval processes". Memory & Cognition. 41 (8): 1228–1237. doi:10.3758/s13421-013-0335-4. ISSN   1532-5946. PMID   23737359.
  3. ↑ Schmidt, Stephen R. (4 May 2012). Extraordinary Memories for Exceptional Events. Psychology Press. p. 110. ISBN   978-1-136-49936-4.
  4. ↑ Iaccino, J. F.; Sowa, S. J. (February 1989). "Bizarre imagery in paired-associate learning: an effective mnemonic aid with mixed context, delayed testing, and self-paced conditions". Perceptual and Motor Skills. 68 (1): 307–16. doi:10.2466/pms.1989.68.1.307. PMID   2928063. S2CID   19383104.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.