Part-list cuing can be transient and lasting: the role of encoding.
The presentation of a subset of learned items as retrieval cues can have detrimental effects on recall of the remaining items. For 2 types of encoding conditions, the authors examined in 3 experiments whether such part-list cuing is a transient or a lasting phenomenon. Across the experiments, the detrimental effect of part-list cues was consistently found to be transient with a high degree of interim associations and lasting with a low degree. These results indicate that the persistence of part-list cuing depends on encoding, thus challenging both strategy disruption and retrieval inhibition as general accounts of part-list cuing. A 2-mechanism account is provided according to which the 2 mechanisms mediate the effect in different encoding conditions.
Bäuml
Karl-Heinz
KH
Department of Experimental Psychology, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany. karl-heinz.baeuml@psychologie.uni-regensburg.de
Aslan
Alp
A
D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D012691:Serial Learning; D014706:Verbal Learning