Part-list cuing with and without item-specific probes: the role of encoding.
Part-list cuing--the detrimental effect of the presentation of a subset of studied items on recall of the remaining noncue items--was examined in three different study conditions and in the presence and absence of the noncues' initial letters serving as item-specific probes. With a single study trial, part-list cuing was observed both with and without item-specific probes. By contrast, when participants received two study-test cycles or interrelated list items to a common story, part-list cues were found to be detrimental only in the absence of item-specific probes, but not in their presence. These results indicate that the role of item-specific probes in part-list cuing depends on encoding. The findings are consistent with a recent two-mechanism account of part-list cuing (Bäuml & Aslan, 2006), according to which two different mechanisms mediate the effect in different encoding situations.
Aslan
Alp
A
Department of Experimental Psychology, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany.
Bäuml
Karl-Heinz
KH
D003463:Cues; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning