Effects of Conceptual Encoding on Conscious and Unconscious Memory in Different Implicit Tests

• Main Authors: Zheng-Yan Lee, 李正彥
• Other Authors: Chao-Ming Cheng
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7xgcxz

碩士 === 佛光大學 === 心理學系 === 97 === This study investigated how shallow processing (complexity rating) and two levels of deep processing (pleasantness rating and conceptual relatedness rating) of study words affect conscious memory (CM) and unconscious memory (UM) of the words with three implicit tests: word-stem completion, word association, and word identification. The metacognition-based dissociation procedure developed by Cheng, Lin, and Tsai (2008) was used to separate CM from UM in each test. The three experiments consistently produced a positive effect of level-of-processing (LoP) on the estimate of CM. There was an interaction of Deep Processing × Test on the estimate of CM: the estimate of CM in word-stem completion benefited more from pleasantness rating than from conceptual relatedness rating, and that in word association benefited more from conceptual relatedness rating than pleasantness rating. The estimate of UM benefited from shallow and pleasantness rating in word-stem completion, from shallow condition in word-identification, and produced reversed LoP effect. None of the three study conditions produced an effect on the estimate of UM in word association. The results of this study is discussed with the mechanisms underlying CM and UM proposed by Cheng et al. .