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FREE RECALL WITH ASSISTANCE FROM ONE AND FROM TWO RETRIEVAL CUES
Author(s) -
McLEOD P. D.,
WILLIAMS C. E.,
BROADBENT D. E.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1971.tb02011.x
Subject(s) - recall , free recall , psychology , recall test , task (project management) , serial position effect , cognitive psychology , cue dependent forgetting , word (group theory) , context dependent memory , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , management , economics
A list of words was presented for free recall, and hints were later given for unrecalled words by presenting first one and then a second cue word associated with the unrecalled words. Earlier results by Tulving & Osler had shown that one cue assists recall but had shown no benefit from the second cue; in their task, however, the associations were established with the experiment. In the present results, the second cue did produce a further increment in recall; furthermore, the increment in recall was greater than that predicted on the assumption that there was no interaction between the two cues. This means that the first cue had produced some effect even when it did not give full recall.