Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Pirrotta, Michael
Author's Email Address	pirrotta@psy.fsu.edu
URN	etd-11152010-115959
Title	Exploring Perceptual Fluency Using Complex Images
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Psychology, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Asby Plant Committee Member Colleen Kelley Committee Member Michael Kaschak Committee Member
Keywords	Memory Fluency Perceptual Fluency Dual Process
Date of Defense	2010-10-25
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Fluency is the ease of processing information, and is commonly seen as a component of familiarity. The major evidence that fluency is a basis for familiarity is a paradigm where fluency is manipulated by briefly priming participants with an item before asking them if they have previously encountered it, based on Jacoby and Whitehouse (1989). Four experiments were run to see if this effect occurs for pictures as well as words. Experiments 1 and 2 show that priming can increase judgments that an item was recently studied for obscure symbols and line drawings of common objects, respectively. Experiment 3 failed to show priming for pictures of faces. Finally, Experiment 4 manipulated study time and asked participants to make a Remember/Know judgment. Perceptual fluency is used as a basis for picture memory when participants are unable to use recollective cues.
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