title: Relational and item-specific influences on generate-recognize processes in recall.
abstract: The generate-recognize model and the relational-item-specific distinction are two approaches to explaining recall. In this study, we consider the two approaches in concert. Following Jacoby and Hollingshead (Journal of Memory and Language 29:433-454, 1990), we implemented a production task and a recognition task following production (1) to evaluate whether generation and recognition components were evident in cued recall and (2) to gauge the effects of relational and item-specific processing on these components. An encoding task designed to augment item-specific processing (anagram-transposition) produced a benefit on the recognition component (Experiments 1-3) but no significant benefit on the generation component (Experiments 1-3), in the context of a significant benefit to cued recall. By contrast, an encoding task designed to augment relational processing (category-sorting) did produce a benefit on the generation component (Experiment 3). These results converge on the idea that in recall, item-specific processing impacts a recognition component, whereas relational processing impacts a generation component.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, MSC 3452, P.O. Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM, 88003-8001, USA, mguynn@nmsu.edu.
authors.forename: Melissa J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Guynn
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: McDaniel
authors.forename: Garrett L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Strosser
authors.forename: Juan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ramirez
authors.forename: Erica H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Castleberry
authors.forename: Kristen H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Arnett
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003210:Concept Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult