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Taxonomic category headings were varied in a 2 by 2 factorial design at input and output in the processing and recall of concrete nouns in two experiments with college undergraduates. Experiment 1 showed that cuing at recall was beneficial regardless of whether cues were present during processing, but was maximally effective if cues were present at both stages. Experiment 2 examined whether the effectiveness of recall cues was due to their reinstating the encoding context at recall. The results supported neither a generation-recognition model of recall nor a strict interpretation of the encoding specificity principle. It is suggested that situationally specific mini-theories be formulated to account for cued recall phenomena.
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We thank Richard Deni for his helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. David A. Dupree is now at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.
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Epstein, M.L., Dupree, D.A. & Gronikowski, L.A. Encoding specificity and contextual similarity. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 14, 177–180 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329437
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