Assignment: Biological Psychology

In Experiment 1, the effect of value on recognition, rec- ollection, and familiarity was measured using the Remember-Know task. This task relies on participants’ introspection about the characteristics of their recognition

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judgments. For each test item that is judged ‘‘old”, partici- pants decide if their recognition is based on remembering the study episode for the item, or if they simply knew the item had been presented due to a strong sense of familiar- ity. This method for assessing recollection and familiarity have been used widely and it has been shown that partic- ipants are able to use Remember and Know responses to accurately differentiate between episodic and non- episodic memory (Dudukovic & Knowlton, 2006; Gardiner, Ramponi, & Richardson-Klavehn, 1998; McCabe, Geraci, Boman, Sensenig, & Rhodes, 2011). After studying a long list of words that are assigned either a high or low point-value, we hypothesized the following effects on the Remember-Know test. First, high-value words will be cor- rectly recognized overall more often than low-value words, Second, we hypothesized that high-value words will receive a greater proportion of trials with remember responses due to deeper semantic processing of these items and/or binding of these items to the study context. Conversely, there may also be an increase in Know responses for high-value items if value increased overall memory strength.