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In word-fragment cuing tests, disclosing a test item piecemeal (e.g., r------p; r----r-p; r-i--r-p; r-i--rop) rather than all at once (r-i--rop) inhibits its discovery. Such cue depreciation has thus far been observed only with items that were either studied beforehand or otherwise primed. In the present study, the effect of amount of priming on the magnitude of the inhibition was investigated. In Experiment 1, some words were presented once and others were presented five times; in Experiment 2, some words were designated the to-be-remembered items and were studied with a deep orienting task, while others were designated the to-be-forgotten items and were studied with a shallow orienting task. In both experiments, the cue depreciation effect dissipated with less primed words, which suggests that priming per se is not the critical factor influencing inhibition.
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Peynircioğlu, Z.F. Amount of priming and the cue depreciation effect. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 28, 393–394 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334047
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334047