Open AccessCategory cued recall evokes a generate-recognize retrieval process.
Author(s) -
R. Reed Hunt,
Rebekah E. Smith,
Jeffrey P. Toth
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of experimental psychology. learning, memory, and cognition
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.758
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1939-1285
pISSN - 0278-7393
DOI - 10.1037/xlm0000136
Subject(s) - cued recall , recall , encoding (memory) , categorization , cued speech , psychology , encoding specificity principle , free recall , process (computing) , recall test , cognitive psychology , replicate , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , operating system , statistics
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.