ISSN : 1226-9654
Three experiments were conducted to examine the boundary condition of self-generated bizarre imagery effect in free recall. The subjects in experiment 2 were asked to create an interaction between a pair of nouns and those in experiment 1 were given only one noun. In experiment 1 and 2 for incidental learning task, bizarre imagery increased recall when imagery type was manipulated in mixed-lists(within-lists) design but not in pure-lists(between-lists) design. In experiment 3 for intentional learning task, bizarre imagery faciliated recall in mixed-lists design but not in pate-lists design. These results indicated that bizarreness effect in self-generation procedure emerged when bizarreness was manipulated as mixed-list design.