The Effect of Stimulus Presentation Mode and Cognitive Style on Sentence Recognition Memory

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to further investigate performance differences between reflective and impulsive subjects on a recognition memory task. Other researchers have proposed that these differences are based on visual analysis and that they are relatively independent of verbal processes. To test this contention, a sentence recognition task was presented either visually or auditorily to twenty reflective and twenty impulsive undergraduate subjects. Results indicated that verbal recognition memory is sensitive to both cognitive tempo and stimulus presentation mode.