A generation effect can be found during naturalistic learning
Abstract
Recently, Carroll and Nelson (1993) presented research suggesting that general-information questions might represent a boundary condition for the generation effect. The present research focused on whether the generation effect did, in fact, generalize to such questions. In Experiment 1, when subjects read or generated the answers to general-information questions, a generation advantage was demonstrated on a 47-h delayed cued-recall test. However, when the Carroll and Nelson procedure was mimicked by requiring subjects to make an initial attempt to answer the questions, the generation advantage was reduced such that it was no longer statistically significant. In Experiments 2 and 3, the findings of the first experiment generalized to a free-recall test. Thus, general-information questions do not represent a boundary condition for the generation effect.
Repository Citation
DeWinstanley, Patricia A., 1995. "A generation effect can be found during naturalistic learning." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2(4): 538-541.
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Publication Date
12-1-1995
Publication Title
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Department
Psychology
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03210990
Language
English
Format
text
