Biomedical subjects

R E Franken

Publications and source records attributed to R E Franken.

13 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1989

Sensation seeking and marital adjustment.

Seventy-two married couples completed Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale, Form V, and the Kimmel and VanderVeen modification of the Locke Marital Adjustment Questionnaire. Marital adjustment was not related to the difference between husbands' and wives' sensation-seeking scores, but a negative relationship was found between sensation seeking and marital adjustment for women but not for men. This suggests that high sensation seeking in women has a negative impact on their marital satisfaction independent of their husband's sensation-seeking score. Assortative mating for sensation seeking was also observed.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

PubMed1983

Picture recognition memory in children: effects of homogeneous versus heterogeneous classes of pictures.

This study shows that, when homogeneous classes of pictures are used in a picture-recognition task, developmental trends do emerge whereas when a heterogeneous class of pictures is used such developmental trends are not found. These results are consistent with the view that as children get older (3-4 yr., 6-7 yr., 9-10 yr., adolescents, adults) they get better at organizing material that is more difficult to differentiate or remember.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1979

Nature of the representation for picture-recognition memory.

When distracting pictures are randomly selected from the same pool of pictures as the target pictures, performance with large numbers of pictures (1,000) is much poorer than has previously been reported. Further, performance drops quite substantially after 1 wk., a finding that differs from the conclusion that picture memory is relatively stable over time. Under conditions where the distractors were selected to reduce similarity between targets and distracting pictures, performance approximated levels previously reported in the literature. The results of the experiments seem to demand some type of categorization model of picture-recognition memory.

Discrimination Learning↗

PubMed1975

Predicting memory for pictures from rankings of interestingness, pleasingness, complexity, figure-ground and clarity.

Pictures used in the test phase of a picture-recognition task were ranked by 10 university students for interestingness, pleasingness, complexity, figure-ground, and clarity. The scale values obtained from these rankings were then correlated with the errors made by other subjects in the test phase of the picture-recognition task. Figure-ground and clarity were found, for the most part, to be reliable predictors of the errors made to both the "old" and "new" subsets of pictures in two experiments. Complexity, while not as consistent a predictor of either figure-ground or clarity, was a reasonably good predictor. Interestingness and pleasingness were not reliable predictors of errors.

Exploratory Behavior↗

PubMed1973