The patterns of the odd-even effect on product verification in Hong Kong Chinese

Authors
Citation
Kfe. Wong, The patterns of the odd-even effect on product verification in Hong Kong Chinese, PSYCHOLOGIA, 42(2), 1999, pp. 101-110
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology
Journal title
PSYCHOLOGIA
ISSN journal
00332852 → ACNP
Volume
42
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
101 - 110
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-2852(199906)42:2<101:TPOTOE>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Twenty Hong Kong Chinese undergraduate students were recruited to examine t he patterns of the odd-even effect observed in Lemaire and Fayol (1995). In the present study, the odd-even effect was found only in difficult problem s for which problems and answers were presented simultaneously. Since parti cipants in the present study were believed to possess faster retrieval spee d than those in Lemaire and Fayol (1995), the results suggest that memory r etrieval and parity-checking are executed in parallel, and are consistent w ith the multiple-strategy hypothesis which states that there is a horse rac e between the fact retrieval and parity-checking processes during verificat ion. Implications about the superiority of Chinese in solving simple arithm etic are also discussed.