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Download full textBruce, Darryl; Papay, James P. – 1970
In three experiments using a single-trial, free-recall procedure, subjects were sometimes presented a forget cue during a list, meaning that they were not responsible for recalling any of the words which preceded it, only those which followed it. Since the primacy effect over the functional beginning of such lists was not diminished, the proactive…
Descriptors: Cues, Extinction (Psychology), Inhibition, Memory
Peer reviewedGoodwin, C. James; Bruce, Darryl – American Journal of Psychology, 1972
Free recall showed a drop in primacy with practice whereas reconstruction did not, which suggests that temporal tags per se may be relatively unimportant as retrieval cues for the recall of early list members. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Primacy Effect, Recall (Psychology)
