An Examination of Process Dissociation Procedure(PDP) in Sentence and Action Memory

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Reza Kormi-Nouri ¹ , Ulla-Britt Bramdal ² , Lars-Göran Nilsson ³

1 - Ph.D. Tehran University
2 - Ph.D. Stockholm University
3 - Ph.D. Stockholm University

Received: 2015-06-07 Accepted : 2015-06-07 Published : 2004-09-22

Keywords: Process Dissociation Procedure (PDP), subject-performed task (SPT), verbal task (VT), automatic processing, controlled processing, implicit processing, explicit processing,

Abstract :

The Process Dissociation Procedure (PDP) was used in the present study for two purposes: 1) to measure separately the contribution of automatic and controlled processes in subject-performed tasks (SPT) and verbal tasks (VT). 2) to explore whether SPTs and VTs differ with respect to automaticity. in Experiment 1, SPTs and VTs were manipulated in two separate exclusion conditions. In Experiment 2, both SPTs and VTs were manipulated simultaneously in one exclusion condition. Furthermore, in Experiment 3, the subjects were not told to remember SPTs and VTs and were not informed about a later memory test. The results of all three experiments, conducted on a total of 45 undergraduate students, revealed that PDP is not a suitable instrument for distinction bet-ween automatic (implicit) and controlled (explicit) process-ing, and not generalizable for different situations or diffe-rent learning materials. The results are discussed with respect to violation of two PDP assumptions (i.e., invari-ance in familiarity and in recollection).