Retrieval inhibition from part-set cuing: A persisting enigma in memory research

Nickerson, Raymond S.

doi:10.3758/bf03213342

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“…Recall for the remaining words is actually worse than when people are given no subset of target words during recall. This inhibitory effect has been attributed to various mechanisms (see reviews by Nickerson, 1984;Roediger, 1973;Rundus, 1973). For example, the retrievability of the presented targets might be strengthened, to the detriment of the remaining subset.…”

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Collective memory: Collaborative and individual processes in remembering.

Weldon

Bellinger²

1997

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Two experiments compared collaborative and individual recall. In Experiment 1, participants encoded pictures and words with a deep or shallow processing task, then recalled them twice either individually or collaboratively. Collaborative groups recalled more than individuals, but less than nominal groups (pooled individuals), thus exhibiting collaborative inhibition. However, group recall appeared to be more stable over time than individual recall. Groups and individuals both showed a picture-superiority effect, a level-of-processing effect, and hypermnesia. In Experiment 2, participants recalled the story "War of the Ghosts" (from F. C. Bartlett, 1932), and again collaborative groups recalled more than individuals, but less than nominal groups. Both the individual and collaborative recalls were highly organized. There was evidence that the collaborative groups tended to rely on the best individual to a greater extent in story than in list recall. Possible social and cognitive mechanisms are considered.

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Collective memory: Collaborative and individual processes in remembering.

Weldon

Bellinger²

1997

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

336

524

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“…The part-set cuing effect even persists when the cues are extralist rather than intralist (Watkins, 1975). Nickerson (1984) labeled the part-set cuing effect as "a persisting enigma in memory research." This statement is still true today.…”

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Part-Set Cuing Effects in Younger and Older Adults.

Marsh¹,

Dolan²,

Balota³

et al. 2004

Psychology and Aging

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In 3 experiments, the authors examined part-set cuing effects in younger and older adults. Participants heard lists of category exemplars and later recalled them. Recall was uncued or cued with a subset of studied items. In Experiment 1, participants were cued with some of the category names, and they remembered fewer never-cued categories than a free-recall condition. In Experiment 2, a similar effect was observed for category exemplar cues. There was also an age difference: By some measures, a small number of cues impaired older adults more than younger. Experiment 3 replicated this result and found that older adults were disproportionately slow in the presence of cues. Across experiments, older adults showed robust part-set cuing effects, and sometimes, they were disproportionately impaired by cues.

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“…In part-set cuing experiments, subjects are provided with a portion of a previously studied word list at the point of recall. Such part-set cues have generally been found to hurt recall performance for both categorized and noncategorized lists (see Nickerson, 1984, for a review). Furthermore, for categorized lists, the greater the number of category instances that are provided as cues, the worse the subjects' ability to recall other words from the same category (Roediger, 1973;Rundus, 1973;Slamecka, 1968Slamecka, , 1972.…”

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The effects of social pressure on group recall

Reysen

2003

Memory & Cognition

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Retrieval inhibition from part-set cuing: A persisting enigma in memory research

Cited by 241 publications

References 82 publications

Collective memory: Collaborative and individual processes in remembering.

Collective memory: Collaborative and individual processes in remembering.

Part-Set Cuing Effects in Younger and Older Adults.

The effects of social pressure on group recall

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