RECOGNITION MEMORY FOR ITEM AND ORDER INFORMATION

Designed a short-term recognition memory task to provide signal detection measures of the retention of both the items presented and the order in which the items occurred. Results from 18 female undergraduates indicate that the receiver-operating characteristic curves for both types of information result from underlying, overlapping normal distributions. An adequate description of the retention of order information appears not to require an assumption of probabilistic incrementation based on attention to only part of that information. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.