Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of schema and target verbalization on recognition memory and recollective experience. Forty participants watched the animation describing the kitchen, which included schema-consistent targets and schema-inconsistent targets. Following the animation presentation, half of the participants verbalized the targets included in the animation. The other half of them did not verbalize the targets. Then, participants completed recognition test consisted of targets, schema-consistent distracters, and inconsistent distracters. Furthermore, remember-know judgment task was given. We found the hit rate and the remember judgment rate for schema-inconsistent targets were higher than those for schema-consistent targets. The false alarm rate, the remember judgment rate, and the know judgment rate for schema-consistent distracters were higher than those for schema-inconsistent distracters. And target-verbalization caused miss for the targets. We suggested the targets which were not verbalized could be missed on recognition test.
