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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > repetition effect > Ranschburg phenomenon

Preferred term

Ranschburg phenomenon  

Definition

  • Poorer immediate serial recall (omissions or position errors) of a short list of items containing at least one repeated item (or poorer memory of the repeated items) compared to a list with no repeated items.

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Entry terms

  • Ranschburg effect
  • repetition inhibition

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Crowder, R. G. (1968). Intraserial repetition effects in immediate memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 7(2), 446–451. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(68)80031-3

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Jahnke, J. C. (1969). The Ranschburg effect. Psychological Review, 76(6), 592–605. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0028148

    [Study type: empirical study, literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Ranschburg, P. (1902). Uber Hemmung gleichzeitiger Reizwirkungen. Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane, 30, 39–86.

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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