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Mental Set and Mental Shift Revisited
Abstract
In 1927, Jersild found that alternately subtracting 3 from a two-digit number and giving the common opposite to a word in a mixed list of numbers and words was faster than the average speed of subtracting 3s from a pure list of numbers and giving the opposites to a pure list of words. Experiment I replicated those findings: mixed lists were slightly, albeit nonsignificantly, faster than pure lists. Experiments II, III, and IV were designed to determine why changes of set did not slow performance on mixed lists: the results suggest that a shift of operations will take little or no time if the stimulus can serve as a retrieval cue for the operation to be performed on it. But changes of set will have a large effect when the selection of the appropriate operation requires that one keep track of previously performed operations.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Spector, A., & Biederman, I.
- Venue
- The American Journal of Psychology
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 1976-12
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 669
- ISSN
- 0002-9556 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2020714528
- Cited by
- 398
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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