Sb. Klein et al., REPEATED TESTING - A TECHNIQUE FOR ASSESSING THE ROLES OF ELABORATIVEAND ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSING IN THE REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE, Journal of personality and social psychology, 66(5), 1994, pp. 830-839
A new technique for evaluating the roles of elaborative and organizati
onal processing in the representation of social information is describ
ed. Although these concepts have found increasing application in theor
ies of social knowledge, most investigations of elaboration and organi
zation have relied on measures that can lead to interpretive ambiguiti
es. Two studies show how analysis of the item-gain and item-loss compo
nents of multitrial free recall provides a means for assessing the con
tributions of elaborative and organizational processing while avoiding
many of the problems found with existing measures.