INDIRECT MEMORY TESTS OF SCRIPT-RELATED I NFORMATION

The experiments described in this article are concerned with the exami nation of memory for script-related information and were conducted in order to replicate the results reported by Bredenkamp and Vaterrodt (1 992) with further indirect measures. Examining the question whether in direct memory effects at a data-driven level can be shown for highly t ypical unrecognized script items should produce evidence either in fav or of the Partial-Copy-Model of Bower, Black, and Turner (1979) or in favor of the Schema-Copy-Plus-Tag-Model of Graesser and Nakamura (1982 ). Whereas in the first experiment with N = 60 subjects a self-paced r eading test and a metacognitive task served as indirect tests of memor y performance, the N = 50 subjects of the second experiment were requi red to do a sentence decision task. In both experiments the performanc e for previously presented vs. not-presented typical or atypical scrip t items was compared. None of the indirect measures showed memory effe cts for the highly typical unrecognized script items. Beside this, the results referring to the previously not-presented atypical items indi cated indirect effects due to script activation. On the whole, the cur rent data are consistent with a modified Schema-Copy-Plus-Tag-Model.