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When target words were accompanied on the study trial by weakly associated cue words, recall was better when the same weak cues or strongly associated cue words were present on the recall test than when no cue words were present. The results for the comparison of the strong-cue and no-cue groups do not replicate those reported by Thomson and Tulving (1970, Experiment 2) and support an associative continuity rather than an encoding specificity position.
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Cooper, M. H., Newman, S. E., Womack, S. E., & Routten, C. E. Recall as a function of encoding instructions and retrieval cues. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, April 1976.
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We thank Marion Horton, Patricia Newman, and Jocelyn Robson, who assisted with the experiment and with the data analysis; the staff and children of Archbishop Temple’s School, London, who cooperated with the testing; and Margaret Cooper, G. Alfred Forsyth, Donald Mershon, Kathryn Parker, and Eli Saltz, who commented on earlier versions of this paper. The support provided by the Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, where the senior author was an Honorary Research Fellow, is also appreciated. A paper based on this study was presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, November 1975.
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03329334.
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Newman, S.E., Frith, U. Encoding specificity vs associative continuity. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 10, 73–75 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333551
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