Skip to main content

Cognitive psychology of human memory (thesaurus)

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

phenomenon > memory phenomenon > concreteness effect

Preferred term

concreteness effect  

Definition

  • Better memory for concrete words (e.g. table or book) than for abstract words (e.g. goodness or justice).

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • imageability effect

Belongs to group

Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Paivio, A. (1969). Mental imagery in associative learning and memory. Psychological Review, 76(3), 241-263. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0027272

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-N3MH6KQ1-K

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 12/4/17, last modified 3/15/23