Automatic temporal order judgment: The effect of intentionality of retrieval on closed-head-injured patients
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
- Vol. 13 (2), 291-298
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01688639108401044
Abstract
Closed-head-injured (CHI) and control groups were tested on a temporal order task under intentional and incidental retrieval conditions. Subjects were given five presentations of a list of nouns. In the incidental retrieval condition, subjects were told that they were to remember the words but that the order was not important. In the intentional retrieval condition, subjects were given the words in an order different from that in which they were originally presented and were asked to reorder the words to match the original order. For both conditions we compared the order in which words were recalled to the order in which they were originally presented. The results suggest that temporal order memory had more effortful characteristics in the intentional than in the incidental retrieval condition. The two groups did not differ significantly in the incidental retrieval condition. However, while the control group showed a significant improvement in the intentional retrieval condition. CHI groups performance did not significantly change. This study highlights two major points: (1) intentionality at the retrieval stage determines the effortfulness with which information is processed; (2) the more automatic the tasks, the better it is preserved following closed-head injury.Keywords
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