Dienes, Zoltán and Scott, Ryan (2005) Measuring unconscious knowledge: distinguishing structural knowledge and judgment knowledge. Psychological Research, 69 (5-6). pp. 338-351. ISSN 0340-0727

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Abstract

This paper investigates the dissociation between conscious and unconscious knowledge in an implicit learning paradigm. Two experiments employing the artificial grammar learning task explored the acquisition of unconscious and conscious knowledge of structure (structural knowledge). Structural knowledge was contrasted to knowledge of whether an item has that structure (judgment knowledge). For both structural and judgment knowledge, conscious awareness was assessed using subjective measures. It was found that unconscious structural knowledge could lead to both conscious and unconscious judgment knowledge. When structural knowledge was unconscious, there was no tendency for judgment knowledge to become more conscious over time. Furthermore, conscious rather than unconscious structural knowledge produced more consistent errors in judgments, was facilitated by instructions to search for rules, and after such instructions was harmed by a secondary task. The dissociations validate the use of these subjective measures of conscious awareness.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Depositing User:	Zoltan Dienes
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 15:39
Last Modified:	19 Aug 2014 10:20
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13722

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