The Effects of Self-generated Cues on Recall of the Paragraphs of a Text

A self-generated list of short indications of the paragraphs of a text was shown to subjects to facilitate the retrieval of the text's contents during recall. The results of Experiment 1 indicated that a substantial number of potentially accessible paragraphs failed to be retrieved under ordinary conditions of free recall. Access to some paragraphs appears to have been inhibited progressively by previous, more or less complete, retrieval of the contents of other paragraphs. In Experiment 2, repetition of recall provided access to a significant number of supplementary paragraphs. A significant number of paragraphs initially reproduced, however, was omitted during secondary recall. In both experiments, the completeness of recalled paragraphs was a negative function of their serial position of output. In Experiment 3, inspection of a self-generated list of short indications of paragraphs and experimenter-provided verbal embellishment of half of the paragraphs affected recall independently

Cognitive psychology · Completeness (order theory · Free recall · Linguistics · Recall · Recall test · Repetition (rhetorical device · Serial position effect · Computer Science · Mathematics · Memory Processes and Influences · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

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