Schoell, Lukas (2022) The Impact of Tail Frequencies on Position-Specific Letter Recall in (Non)Words. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This study is a follow-up to a series of studies exploring the role of letter recognition within the conceptual network model. To investigate this, a task was used to compare words and non-words regarding their position-specific recall performance. Previous results showed an unexpected peak in the third letter position that the model does not account for. We replicated the initial study design and added beginning and end frequency as a control variable as a possible explanation for the earlier results. The last 3 letters were designed so there would be either many or hardly any (non)words starting/ending with this word string. Results showed an unexpected significant 3-way interaction effect between word type, letter position, and frequency, with significant results for positions 3, 4, and 5. Higher frequency non-words had higher recall accuracy at their corresponding high frequency proportion. Overall, this study is consistent with the conceptual network model and suggests frequency as a possible explanation for the preceding third position peak.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Vries, P.H. de |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2022 09:27 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2022 09:27 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1125 |
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