Title: Performing versus Observing "Right" and "Wrong" Responses in Incidental and Intentional Learning
Abstract: After listening to right and wrong responses given by an experimenter in a two-response alternative task, observers were found choosing the correct responses in a subsequent trial by remembering the correct responses. On the other hand, performers were responding by recalling separately their preceding responses and the corresponding outcomes right and wrong. The present experiment investigates whether the difference in memory involvement of past response-outcome contingencies is due to the observers' deliberate use of a more proficient learning strategy: Retaining the correct responses only, instead of separately retaining responses and outcomes. The hypothesis is rejected because observers in incidental and intentional learning conditions respond in the same way. The difference between performers and observers disappears with female subjects. The covert activities of male and female performers and observers are described to explain the results.
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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