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
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Professor, Psychological Sciences
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
[email protected]
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