STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF WORDS IN FREE-RECALL LEARNING

In Exp. I with 12 undergraduates, the presence or absence of retrieval cues was varied factorially with the presence or absence of storage cues. Retrieval cues facilitated recall when storage cues were present, but not when they were absent. Exp. II with 16 undergraduates showed that the facilitating effects of retrieval cues depended on the pairing of storage cues and the words to be recalled. The results were interpreted in terms of the storage tags generated during input. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1968 American Psychological Association.