Abstract
The main purpose of the present study was to examine the processing feature of self-reference orienting task. Like-dislike rating task was used as self-reference orienting task. Experiment 1 was done to determine if the like-dislike rating task produces the same effect as other kind of self-reference orienting tasks in free recall test. Results of free recall showed the self-reference effect. Results of Experiment 1 provide a basis to regard the like-dislike rating task as a self-reference orienting task. In Experiment 2, subjects were first told to perform physical, semantic, and self-reference orienting tasks, then they were given a graphimic cued recall task, a word fragment cued-recall test and a category name cued-recall test. Results of category name cued-recall test showed the self-reference effect. These results revealed that the self-reference orienting task has conceptual driven processing feature.
