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Are my cues better than your cues?| Uniqueness and reconstruction as prerequisites for optimal recall of verbal materials
Author(s) -
MÄntylÄ TIMO,
NILSSON LARSGÖran
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1983.tb00504.x
Subject(s) - phenomenon , recall , psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , cognitive psychology , free recall , uniqueness , social psychology , recall test , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , programming language
Three experiments are presented to demonstrate a striking empirical phenomenon not previously reported in the literature. This new phenomenon is that of perfect recall performance after incidental learning instruction with one trial only. The means taken to establish this effect was to have subjects generate aspects of each item presented at study and then at test to ask subjects to recall these to‐be‐remembered items when the selfgenerated aspects were re‐presented. The phenomenon was first demonstrated in Experiment 1 and then replicated in Experiments 2 and 3. A few critical controls were also employed in these latter experiments. A tentative, theoretical interpretation of these findings reported was proposed. The core concepts of this interpretation are those of uniqueness and reconstruction.