Appendix.
Coding Key for Post-Test Strategy Assessment
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1. General Comments about Task Comments on details of task (e.g. distractor, variety of items, speed of presentation, similarity of stimuli) General comments about task (e.g. activates your memory, might improve memory) Stated prior experience with this task or similar tasks Stated no prior experience with task Task was difficult Positive comments about task Negative comments about task Curious about purpose of task Difficulty with categories 2. General Comments about Memory Associated stimuli with life/self/objects in room/pictured in use/interacting with each other Characterized own memory as bad/thinks task performance was poor Characterized own memory as good/thinks task performance was good General comments on memory 3. Insight & Strategy Categories Recognition easier than recall Recall easier than recognition Rehearsal/repetition Pictures easier than words Didn’t concentrate hard enough/distracted/didn’t try Miscellaneous strategies (e.g. recalled all exemplars of a category, started at end and worked backwards, visualization by category, turned words into pictures, created story, visualized colors) 4. Off-Topic Comments Miscellaneous observations |
1. Insight and Strategy- Categories/Association Association Categories 2. Insight and Strategy- Other Alphabetical Order Associated stimuli with life/self/objects in room/pictured in use/interacting with each other Concentrating/telling self to remember/committing to memory Difficulty with categories Distracted/didn’t concentrate/no strategy/guessing Miscellaneous strategies (e.g. recalled all exemplars of a category, started at end and worked backwards, visualization by category, turned words into pictures, created story, visualized colors) Pictures easier to remember than words Recognition easier than recall Rehearsal/Repetition Serial Oder Did not use categories/strategies Surface characteristics (e.g. starts with a G, spelling, details of pictures) Visualization/photographic memory/mental images 3. Don’t Know/No Strategy 4. Miscellaneous |
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