Bilingual generation effect : participant type or list type?
Abstract
In order to gain more information about the nature of bilinguals' lexical memory systems, prior researchers have attempted to ascertain whether a generation effect occurs with bilingual stimuli. This experiment was designed to examine and clarify the reasons for differing results found by Slamecka & Katsaiti (1987) and by O'Neill, Roy & Tremblay (1993). Both a procedural variation and a participant characteristic which had differed in those studies were directly compared. The present study used 2-stimuli (generate and read- translate) and 3-stinmli (generate, read-translate and unilingual repetition) lists with compound and coordinate bilinguals (as described by Paivio, 1991). It was hypothesized that coordinate bilinguals, having access to two completely different memory stores containing somewhat different images of a given word, would recall more generate items than would compound bilinguals who presumably have a single memory store. There was a very large generation effect for both compound and coordinate bilinguals. In contrast to predictions, however, the generation effect was much greater for compound bilinguals rather than coordinate bilinguals. This finding is consistent with the "cognitive challenge" explanation of the generation effect.
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Thesis Completion
1996
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Thomas, Margaret
Degree
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Degree Program
Psychology
Subjects
Arts and Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic;Dissertations, Academic -- Arts and Sciences
Format
Identifier
DP0021470
Language
English
Access Status
Open Access
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Document Type
Honors in the Major Thesis
Recommended Citation
Basi, Ramit K., "Bilingual generation effect : participant type or list type?" (1996). HIM 1990-2015. 63.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses1990-2015/63