PSYCH 140M Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Sampan, Apse, Nepotism
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Brown & mcneill (1966) the experience where we can almost retrieve a memory, but not quite. Subjects heard definitions of 49 unfamiliar english words (e. g. apse, nepotism, sampan) Whenever subject was in tip-of-the-tongue (tot) state, they would begin filling out response sheet: Number of syllables they thought word had. What they thought they first letter of the word was. Words similar in sound to the target word. Words similar in meaning to the target word. Example: a small chinese boat propelled by a single oar over the stern and with the deck usually covered by a roof . Similar sounding words saipan, siam, sampoon. Words with similar meaning barge, houseboat, junk. When target word ended up being the word subjects were thinking of: They correctly guessed number of syllables in word 57% of the time. The words they thought sounded like the word had the same number of syllables 48% of the time.
