Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department or Program
Second Department or Program
Anne E. Houde
Part-set cueing describes the phenomenon in which the presence of cues (i.e., part of the set of to-be-recalled information) influences recall. Part-set cuing inhibition, in particular, describes the presence of cues resulting in a lower performance in recall tasks. The generation effect refers to the finding that, when people are actively involved in creating or generating to-be-recalled information (e.g., solving the fragment, “madne_s” to “madness”), they tend to remember that information better than when that information is merely read. Only a few studies have examined the joint influence of part-set cueing and generation, and these studies have not produced consistent results. The present two experiments explored this combination of variables. Both experiments showed that the magnitude of part-set cueing inhibition did not differ across the read and generated conditions. The implications of these results with present theories of part-set cueing are discussed.
Hemmer, Alexa N., "The Influence of Generation & Part-Set Cueing on Memory" (2016). Senior Theses.