Category cued recall evokes a generate-recognize retrieval process.
The experiments reported here were designed to replicate and extend McCabe, Roediger, and Karpicke's (2011) finding that retrieval in category cued recall involves both controlled and automatic processes. The extension entailed identifying whether distinctive encoding affected 1 or both of these 2 processes. The first experiment successfully replicated McCabe et al., but the second, which added a critical baseline condition, produced data inconsistent with a 2 independent process model of recall. The third experiment provided evidence that retrieval in category cued recall reflects a generate-recognize strategy, with the effect of distinctive processing being localized to recognition. Overall, the data suggest that category cued recall evokes a generate-recognize retrieval strategy and that the subprocesses underlying this strategy can be dissociated as a function of distinctive versus relational encoding processes.
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
R Reed
RR
Hunt
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Rebekah E
RE
Smith
Department of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Jeffrey P
JP
Toth
D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011581:Psychological Tests; D021641:Recognition, Psychology