Estimating unconscious processes: implications of a general class of models. 1996

N Cowan, and M A Stadler
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia 65211, USA. psycowan@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu

Jacoby and his colleagues (e.g., L. L. Jacoby, J. P. Toth, & A. P. Yonelinas, 1993) have shown how the mnemonic contributions of conscious recollection and unconscious familiarity can be separated using a process-dissociation procedure based on a comparison of tasks in which consciously recollected material is to be included in vs. excluded from the responses. However, the estimate of unconscious familiarity depends on the assumptions of the model. This article describes a more general class of models in which the ratio of overlap between conscious and unconscious processes remains fixed and shows that this class of models (which includes the redundancy and exclusivity models as extreme cases) yields improbable results.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008606 Mental Processes Conceptual functions or thinking in all its forms. Information Processing, Human,Human Information Processing
D011939 Mental Recall The process whereby a representation of past experience is elicited. Recall, Mental
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014473 Unconscious, Psychology Those forces and content of the mind which are not ordinarily available to conscious awareness or to immediate recall. Psychological Unconscious,Subconscious,Unconscious (Psychology),Psychology Unconscious,Unconscious, Psychological

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