Re: [tips] A couple of things so please read both; especially relevant to cognitive and personality people

[Ken Steele]

Hi Annette:

Is this the article you seek?

Smith, S M, Glenberg, A, & Bjork, R A (1978). Environmental context and 
human memory. Memory & Cognition, 6, 342-353?


Ken


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On 5/31/2016 11:13 AM, Annette Taylor wrote:

Please forgive cross postings.

(1) I used to cite an article by Smith (1974) and in fact I know I have read 
it! Not so many years ago even because the details are clear to me; this is a 
test of encoding specificity with same or changing rooms (one more white and 
one more orange) for learning and testing but in an added condition she asked 
participants to imagine themselves in the learning room when they changed rooms 
from learning to testing and they performed as well as those who did not change 
environments.

I have searched and searched and searched and searched and cannot find 
it--psych info, google scholar, academic search premier, you name it.

Can anyone help me out here?

(2) I attended some talks at APS this past week. I find the whole approach to 
personality these days to befuddle me completely. Every one of the talks I went 
to tried to categorize people into polar opposites of types either in thinking 
or decision making styles or any of a slew of other reasons doing so.

Now this conflicts with what I had always believed that most human 
characteristics including personality and other types of thinking 
characteristics are pretty much normally distributed with most people falling 
in the middle--having aspects of both poles--68% within one SD and 95% within 2 
SD and so about 5 % would be purely one type of the other.

But the talks I went to all suggested that there is sort of upside down curve 
with 95% of people being clearly categorized as this or that and the bottom of 
the curve, the 5% sort of being hard to categorize.

I am so confused. Can anyone clarify this discrepancy for me please?

Thank you

Annette


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Re: [tips] A couple of things so please read both; especially relevant to cognitive and personality people

[Carol DeVolder]

Annette, I know nothing about #2, but perhaps for #1 you are looking for
something like this?

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy=1981-09628-001



On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Annette Taylor 
wrote:

> Please forgive cross postings.
>
> (1) I used to cite an article by Smith (1974) and in fact I know I have
> read it! Not so many years ago even because the details are clear to me;
> this is a test of encoding specificity with same or changing rooms (one
> more white and one more orange) for learning and testing but in an added
> condition she asked participants to imagine themselves in the learning room
> when they changed rooms from learning to testing and they performed as well
> as those who did not change environments.
>
> I have searched and searched and searched and searched and cannot find
> it--psych info, google scholar, academic search premier, you name it.
>
> Can anyone help me out here?
>
> (2) I attended some talks at APS this past week. I find the whole approach
> to personality these days to befuddle me completely. Every one of the talks
> I went to tried to categorize people into polar opposites of types either
> in thinking or decision making styles or any of a slew of other reasons
> doing so.
>
> Now this conflicts with what I had always believed that most human
> characteristics including personality and other types of thinking
> characteristics are pretty much normally distributed with most people
> falling in the middle--having aspects of both poles--68% within one SD and
> 95% within 2 SD and so about 5 % would be purely one type of the other.
>
> But the talks I went to all suggested that there is sort of upside down
> curve with 95% of people being clearly categorized as this or that and the
> bottom of the curve, the 5% sort of being hard to categorize.
>
> I am so confused. Can anyone clarify this discrepancy for me please?
>
> Thank you
>
> Annette
>
>
> Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
> Professor, Psychological Sciences
> University of San Diego
> 5998 Alcala Park
> San Diego, CA 92110
> tay...@sandiego.edu
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