Figure 3.

Overview of the associative memory task. (A) During the encoding phase, participants were presented 30 face-occupation pairs in a randomized order with each pair shown three times. (B) After the retention interval, the cued recall task showed the faces as cue and participants were asked to decide which of two choices out of three categories (1. Education/1st choice—university degree, 2nd choice—apprenticeship; 2. Maximum Income/1st choice—above average, 2nd choice—average; 3. Focus of Labor Activity/1st choice—mental, 2nd choice—manual) the previously encoded occupation of the depicted person matched. (C) The subsequent recognition task again presented the faces as cues and participants had to choose between the correct and a distractor occupation. Images of faces were derived from the FACES database (Ebner et al., 2010).