| Abstract: | L. L. Jacoby et al (1993) assume that the conscious and unconscious processes make independent contributions to task performance. As an alternative to the independence model, it is suggested that a redundancy model based on the assumption that conscious processes are always associated with correlated unconscious processes can also be used to dissociate the separate influences of these processes. Using data reported by Jacoby et al, it is shown that each model leads to different but equally plausible estimates of conscious and unconscious influences, following both variations in attention (i.e., focused vs divided) and in encoding (i.e., read vs generate). Given these results, both the dependence and redundancy models must be considered plausable models of the underlying relation between conscious and unconscious processes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved) |
