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A simplified and inexpensive procedure for the conduct of research on recognition memory retrieval is presented. The procedure is a card sorting analog to Sternberg’ s item recognition task. An experiment is presented which demonstrates the card sorting task’ s validity. Discussion centers on the suitability of the task for the undergraduate laboratory. Suggestions are given for how card sorting may be used to study psycholinguistic processing and semantic memory.
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This research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (MH 21747) to Richard C. Atkinson. The author is grateful to Professor Atkinson for his comments on an earlier draft of this paper and to Dixie Rhodes for her help in running the study.
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Rothstein, L.D. A simplified procedure for the study of memory retrieval processes. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 4, 73–75 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334197
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