The Effect Of Unconscious Retrieval In Sentences Context

Two experiments were presented to test the effects of sentences context on the development of unconscious retrieval in implicit memory. The formula of Process dissociation framework was used in both experiments. The results in experiment 1 indicate that There are priming effects of sentences context on the development of unconscious retrieval in implicit memory, and there are significant main effects of both context levels.3X2 mixed design was used in experiment 2 to text the priming effects of sentences context on the unconscious retrieval in implicit memory when interference was happened. The results in experiment 2 indicate that there are significant main effects of sentences context and not significant main effects on interference tasks, and there are also significant interaction between sentences contexts and interference tasks. Through analysis we can find that the results of experiment 2 can be explained by the theory that Joordens had introduced: it is operated by conscious retrieval and unconscious retrieval while subjects complete the recall tasks and the performance of unconscious retrieval will decrease when the conscious retrieval contest the memory resources.