| Abstract: | In T. Curran and D. L. Hintzman's (see record 1995-42725-001) article, the authors explained how violations of the independence assumption could affect the process-dissociation procedure and presented evidence that was consistent with the hypothesized effects of independence violations. L. L. Jacoby, I. M. Begg, and J. R Toth (see record 84-21424) argued that independence violations could not account for Curran and Hintzman's results. In this reply, the current authors demonstrate that even moderate correlations between recollective and automatic word-stem completion can cause paradoxical dissociations like those the authors previously reported, and they explain how Jacoby et al came to their contrary conclusion. Second, the authors argue that discussion by Jacoby et al of process-dissociation "boundary conditions" is consistent with Curran and Hintzman's original claims. Finally, the authors discuss problems with the evidence for independence that Jacoby et al presented in their Table 1, including their questionable criteria for excluding experiments from the table and the fact that they did not consider statistical power. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
