Abstract
Summary Three experiments examined characteristics of recognition memory for visually presented ambiguous sentences. Ss were male and female college students (Experiment I, N = 118; Experiment II, N = 48; Experiment III, N = 180). In each experiment, Ss saw stimulus sentences that were either ambiguous or nonambiguous. They then judged the meaning of comparison sentences that were either correct or incorrect paraphrases of the stimulus sentences. Both immediate (Experiments II and III) and delayed (Experiments I and III) retention intervals were used. Both judgments of confidence in paraphrase correctness (Experiment I) and dichotomous choice response of paraphrase correctness (Experiment II and III) were obtained. The results extend understanding of the single-meaning model and suggest the importance of surface characteristics in recognition memory.
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