Abstract
The purposes of this paper were two: First, to examine whether the item-specific information was processed in the encoding of Subject-Performed Tasks (SPTs), second, qualitative difference between the encoding of SPTs and of EPTs. To achieve two aims, two experiments were conducted to determine whether the additional information (a reason to act) facilitates the encoding of each action event. In addition, SPTs condition was manipulated as the imitation of the experimenter's action. Experiment 1, in which 60 subjects divided into four groups, tested the effect of additional information by the framework of experimenter-provided elaboration. Experiment 2, similar to Experiment 1, was carried out by the framework of self-generated elaboration. The results of both experiments were that the additional information facilitated recall performance in without-enactment condition, whereas did not facilitate in with-enactment condition. These findings might support item-specific processing theory of SPTs, and suggested that subject's action changed encoding process qualitatively.
