title: Influences of part-list cuing on different forms of episodic forgetting.
abstract: Across 3 experiments, we examined the interplay of part-list cuing and forgetting, employing 3 different methods to induce episodic forgetting-list--method directed forgetting, context-dependent forgetting, and proactive interference. For each form of forgetting, participants were asked at test to recall the target items of a previously studied list in the presence or the absence of the list's remaining items serving as retrieval cues. We found such part-list cuing to amplify the forgetting in proactive interference but to diminish the forgetting in list-method directed forgetting and context-dependent forgetting. These results show that the effects of part-list cuing on forgotten memories depend critically on the circumstances surrounding the forgetting. If the forgetting reflects impaired access to the original encoding context, as has been suggested in list-method directed forgetting and context-dependent forgetting (but not in proactive interference), part-list cues improve access to forgotten memories; if the forgetting does not reflect such a contextual effect, no such beneficial effects emerge, and access to forgotten memories may even be impaired.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany. karl-heinz.baeuml@psychologie.uni-regensburg.de
authors.forename: Karl-Heinz T
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Bäuml
authors.forename: Anuscheh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Samenieh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003463:Cues; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning; D014825:Vocabulary; D055815:Young Adult