學刊論文
The Word Priority Effect in Remembering Chinese Characters

中  華  心  理  學  刊
民92,45卷,1期,97-105


Yuh-Shiow Lee(Department Psychology, National Chung-Cheng University);Han-yu Lin(Department Psychology, National Chung-Cheng University)

 

Abstract

The word priority hypothesis proposes that words should be pronounced faster, recognized and remembered better than the embedded words. The presents study investigated one aspect of this hypothesis – words are remembered better than the embedded words. The recognition memory paradigm was used to examine the role of the embedded characters (the radicals) in remembering Chinese characters. The results from two experiments showed that when participants studied characters and were later tested recognition memory for radicals, they performed worse than when were tested for characters. In addition, when the study items were characters, there was no effect of radical frequency. However, a clear effect of character frequency was found. These finding suggested that radicals did not play an important role in remembering characters and thus were consistent with the word priority hypothesis. The implication of this conclusion in terms of a regular reading comprehension process was discussed.

Keywords:Recognition memory, Chinese radicals, Frequency effect

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