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Subjects were instructed to make associations to words and paralogs (i.e., associatively encode the units to be recalled) during the study phase of a cued recall experiment. During the recall phase, one group was cued with the associations made during the study phase (subject-generated associations); a second group was cued with words previously established as the modal associates to the units to be recalled (experimenter-supplied associations); a third group was not cued. The group cued with subject-generated associations recalled more units than the group cued with experimenter-supplied associations, and both cued groups recalled more units than the uncued groups. Short-latency associative reaction time units were recalled more frequently than long-latency units under the experimenter-supplied cued recall condition, and high-meaningfulness units were recalled more frequently than low-meaningfulness units under all experimental conditions. The results were interpreted as evidence in support of Ley and Locascio’s hypothesis that retrieval from memory is a function of associations made at the time of storage.
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The authors wish to thank Marion Perlmutter and Robert Sumislawski for their assistance in the collection of the data for this study. This research, which was supported in part by a State University of New York Research Foundation grant-in-aid and faculty research fellowship to the rust author, was presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, S1. Louis, Missouri, November 1971.
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Ley, R., Locascio, D. Subject-generated and experimenter-supplied associations as cues in recall of associatively encoded words and paralogs. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 10, 139–141 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329305
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329305