Memory for partner-related stimuli: Free recall and frequency estimation

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 658-670

  Jose, Anita ^a   Rajaram, Suparna ^a   O'Leary, K Daniel ^a   Williams, Mathew C ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dating relationships; frequency estimation; memory; recall; relationship satisfaction; schema; sentiment override

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955338343     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: 14603608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407510369144     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Andersen, P.A. (1993). Cognitive schemata in personal relationships. In S. Duck (Ed.), Individuals in relationships (pp. 1-29). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2. Andersen, S., & Saribay, A. (2004). The relational self and transference: Evoking motives, self-regulation, and emotions through activation of mental representations of significant others. In M. Baldwin (Ed.), Interpersonal cognition (pp. 1-32). New York: Guilford.
3. Atkins, D.C., Baucom, D.H., & Jacobson, N.S. (2001). Understanding infidelity: Correlates in a national random sample. Journal of Family Psychology, 15, 735-749.
4. Babcock, J.C., Roseman, A., Green, C.E., & Ross, J.M. (2008). Intimate partner abuse and PTSD symptomatology: Examining mediators and moderators in the abuse-trauma link. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 809-818.
5. Baldwin, M.W. (1992). Relational schemas and the processing of social information. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 461-484.
6. Blaney, P.H. (1986). Affect and memory: A review. Psychological Bulletin, 99, 229-246.
7. Bower, G.H. (1981). Mood and memory. American Psychologist, 36, 129-148.
8. Bradburn, N.M., Rips, L.J., & Shevell, S.K. (1987). Answering autobiographical questions: The impact of memory and inference on surveys. Science, 236, 157-161.
9. Brown, N.R. (1995). Estimation strategies and the judgment of event frequency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 1539-1553.
10. Brown, N.R. (1997). Context memory and the selection of frequency estimation strategies. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition, 23, 898-914.
11. Brown, N.R. (2001). Encoding, representing, and estimating event frequencies. In P. Sedlmeier & T. Betsch (Eds.), Frequency Processing and Cognition (pp.37-53). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
12. Charles, S.T., Mather, M., & Carstensen, L.L. (2003). Aging and emotional memory: The forgettable nature of negative images for older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 310-324.
13. Denny, E.B., & Hunt, R.R. (1992). Affective valence and memory in depression: Dissociation of recall and fragment completion. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 101, 575-580.
14. Fincham, F.D., Garnier, P.C., Gano-Phillips, S., & Osborne, L.N. (1995). Preinteraction expectations, marital satisfaction, and accessibility: A new look at sentiment override. Journal of Family Psychology, 9, 3-14.
15. Goodwin, R. (1992). Overall, just how happy are you? The magical question 31 of the Spanier Dyadic Adjustment Scale. Family Therapy, 19, 273-275.
16. Grady, C.L., Hongwanishkul, D., Keightley, M., Lee, W., & Hasher, L. (2007). The effect of age on memory for emotional faces. Neuropysychology, 21, 371-380.
17. Greene, R.L. (1986). Effects of intentionality and strategy on memory for frequency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 12, 489-495.
18. Halford, W.K., Keefer, E., & Osgarby, S.M. (2002). How has the week been for you two? Relationship satisfaction and hindsight memory biases in couples' reports of relationship events. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 26, 759-773.
19. Hastie, R. (1980). Memory for behavioral information that confirms or contradicts a personality impression. In R. Hastie, T. M. Ostrom, E. B. Ebbesen, R. S. Wyer, Jr., D. L. Hamilton, & D. E. Carlston (Eds.), Person memory: The cognitive basis of social perception (pp. 155-177). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
20. Hastie, R., & Kumar, P.A. (1979). Person memory: Personality traits as organizing principles in memory for behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 25-38.
21. Jose, A., & O'Leary, K.D. (2009). Assessing relationship quality in a dating sample: A comparison of two measures. Poster presented at the 43rd annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
22. Jose, A., O'Leary, K.D., Rajaram, S., & Williams, M.C. (2009). Memory of partner interactions: Reality-based or schema dependent? Poster presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society of Psychotherapy Research, Santiago de Chile.
23. Jose, A., Rajaram, S., O'Leary, K.D., & Williams, M.C. (2006). [Role of presentation proportion in recall and frequency estimation of positive and negative words]. Unpublished raw data.
24. Judd, C.M., & Kulik, J.A. (1980). Schematic effects of social attitudes on information processing and recall. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 38, 569-578.
25. Kucera, H., & Francis, W.N. (1967). Computational analysis of present-day American English. Providence, RI: Brown University Press.
26. Maki, R.H., & Ostby, R.S. (1987). Effects of level of processing and rehearsal on frequency judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 13, 151-163.
27. McFarland, C., & Ross, M. (1987). The relation between current impressions and memories of self and dating partners. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 13, 228-238.
28. Naveh-Benjamin, M., & Jonides, J. (1986). On the automaticity of frequency coding: Effects of competing task load, encoding strategy, and intention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 12, 378-386.
29. Pyszczynski, T., LaPrelle, J., & Greenberg, J. (1987). Encoding and retrieval effects of general person characterizations on memory for incongruent and congruent information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 13, 556-567.
30. Rholes, W.S., Riskind, J.H., & Lane, J.W. (1987). Emotional states and memory biases: Effects of cognitive priming and mood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 91-99.
31. Rojahn, K., & Pettigrew, T.F. (1992). Memory for schema-relevant information: A meta-analytic resolution. British Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 81-109.
32. Ross, M. (1989). The relation of implicit theories to the construction of personal histories. Psychological Review, 96, 341-357.
33. Sharpley, C.F., & Cross, D.G. (1982). A psychometric evaluation of the Spanier Dyadic Adjustment Scale. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 44, 739-747.
34. Soetens, B., & Braet, C. (2007). Information processing of food cues in overweight and normal weight adolescents. British Journal of Health Psychology, 12, 285-304.
35. Spanier, G.B. (1976). Measuring dyadic adjustment: New scales for assessing the quality of marriage and similar dyads. Journal of Marriage & the Family, 38, 15-28.
36. Spaniol, J., Voss, A., & Grady, C.L. (2008). Aging and emotional memory: Cognitive mechanisms underlying the positivity effect. Psychology and Aging, 23, 859-872.
37. Tulving, E. (1962). Subjective organization in free recall of 'unrelated' words. Psychological Review, 69, 344-354.
38. Weiss, R.L. (1980). Strategic behavior marital therapy: Toward a model for assessment and intervention. In J. P. Vincent (Ed.), Advances in family intervention, assessment, and theory, Volume 1 (pp. 229-271). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
39. Whisman, M.A., & Delinsky, S.S. (2002). Marital satisfaction and an information-processing measure of partner-schemas. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 26, 617-627.
40. Williams, M.C., O'Leary, K.D., Rajaram, S., & Persampiere, J.J. (2005). Relationship schemas and memory for relationship information. Unpublished manuscript, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
41. Wyer, R.S., Jr., & Gordon, S.E. (1982). The recall of information about persons and groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 18, 128-164.
42. Zacks, R. T., & Hasher, L. (Eds.). (2002). Frequency processing: A twenty-five year perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.