title: A strategic account of the cue-depreciation effect.
abstract: A word fragment is less likely to be completed if it is presented incrementally (R______P, R____R _ P, R_I__R_P, R_I__R O P) than if it is presented all at once (e.g., R_I__R O P). This phenomenon is known as the cue-depreciation effect. The present study examined the role of strategies in this phenomenon. The magnitude of the cue-depreciation effect was increased when subjects were asked to adopt a passive generation approach to word fragment completion. The current study investigated an extension of Bruner and Potter's (1964) early hypothesis-generation account of the cue-depreciation effect. Findings demonstrated the influence of completion strategies for a general theory of fragment completion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bronfman Science Center, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA. athapar@williams.edu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thapar
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011897:Random Allocation; D014796:Visual Perception