Conscious control and memory awareness when recognising famous faces

Authors: Konstantinou, Ira¹; Gardiner, John¹

Source: Memory, Volume 13, Number 5, 2005 , pp. 449-457(9)

Publisher: Psychology Press, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

We describe an experiment that investigated levels-of-processing effects in recognition memory for famous faces. The degree of conscious control over the recognition decisions was manipulated by using a response deadline procedure, and memory awareness associated with those decisions was assessed using a standard remember–know paradigm. Levels-of-processing effects were found at both short and long response deadlines, and at both deadlines those effects occurred only in remembering. Moreover, knowing, as well as remembering, increased with the greater opportunity for conscious control over recognition decisions at the long deadline. These results have implications for dual-process theories that distinguish between a slower, more controlled recollection process, reflected in remembering, and a faster, more automatic familiarity process, reflected in knowing.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09658210444000016

Affiliations: 1: University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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