Host: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
Retrieval information was promoted by prior related information(priming effect). In semantic network model(Collins & Loftus, 1975), related representations have a link, and The model explain priming effect by spreading activation. Other research suggest that contexts promote memory of related information. Thus, it is guess that contexts have an effect to design on memory arrangement in semantic network. In this research, examine that participants make different answers to one word in vary contexts, with free emission method. Context F referred the item’s function, Context D referred the item’s functional disorder, and Context U didn’t refer the item’s function. On the one hand, Context F was not different of Word factor. One the other hand, Context F had less answers than Context D & U on apple. Thus, it is suggested that the function of item is important cue in retrieval system.
