Effects of Anagrams with Single Or Multiple Solutions, Level-Of-Processing, And Generation on Implicit Memory‪.‬

In two experiments I investigated the nature of implicit memory test, anagram solution, by manipulating several variables during the study phase. In Experiment 1, the effects of solution type (single vs. multiple), and study type (physical orienting vs. semantic orienting vs. control) on an anagram solution test were examined. Results of an ANOVA revealed significant main effects of solution type manipulation (single vs. multiple). In Experiment 2, the effects of solution type (single vs. multiple), and study type (reading vs. generate vs. control) on the anagram solution test were examined. ANOVA revealed significant main effects of solution type and generation manipulation. In all study types the anagrams with single solution produced more priming than anagrams with multiple solutions. The findings showed that the anagram solution test was an implicit test that had a perceptual nature and the number of anagram solutions was important for the test performance. Dissociations were obtained between test materials (single vs. multiple) used to measure the same memory processes. I emphasized dissociations among constructional features (solution type) of an anagram solution test. Memory has been defined traditionally as the faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences. However, today the existence of implicit memory has been shown in some experimental studies (Challis, 1989; Eysenck, 1990).