Three sides of one coin? Comparing storage and retrieval of three multinomial models.
Wed-Main hall - Z3-Poster 3-9110
Presented by: Carolin Streitberger
At least three multinomial models (Batchelder & Riefer, 1980; Riefer & Batchelder, 1995; Rouder & Batchelder, 1998) have been used to separately measure storage versus retrieval processes in associative long-term memory. We are planning a within-subjects study to estimate individual storage and retrieval parameters from all three models. First, we want to study the psychometric properties of the estimates by measuring the test-retest reliability within each model. Given reliability, the next step is to understand whether the three storage parameters and the three retrieval parameters per person are related. And lastly, we are planning to include span tasks (Unsworth et al., 2005) to measure working memory capacity and correlate it to the latent long-term memory processes. We are currently trying to answer open questions about aspects of the design such as counterbalancing of the tasks and about modeling such as planning a one- or two-step analysis procedure.
Keywords: multinomial modeling, psychometrics, associative long-term memory, memory storage, memory retrieval, interindividual differences