Del Missier Fabio, Terpini Chiara
Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
Mem Cognit. 2009 Apr;37(3):265-76. doi: 10.3758/MC.37.3.265.
Memory research on the part-set cuing effect has shown that providing some of the to-be-remembered items as cues is not always beneficial and, in some cases, may even hurt retrieval. However, part-set cuing has been sparsely investigated in option generation tasks. Thus, limited empirical evidence for the existence of the effect in option generation is available, and no convincing explanation has been provided yet. In order to fill these gaps, we carried out four experiments. In Experiment 1A, we observed a significant decrease in option generation performance when potential options were presented as cues. Experiment 1B showed that the effect can also be obtained in older adults. Experiments 2A and 2B provided evidence compatible with an inhibition-based explanation of the observed effects.
关于部分集提示效应的记忆研究表明，将一些待记忆项目作为提示并不总是有益的，在某些情况下，甚至可能损害检索。然而，在选项生成任务中，对部分集提示的研究很少。因此，关于选项生成中存在该效应的实证证据有限，并且尚未提供令人信服的解释。为了填补这些空白，我们进行了四项实验。在实验1A中，当潜在选项作为提示呈现时，我们观察到选项生成表现显著下降。实验1B表明，老年人也会出现这种效应。实验2A和2B提供的证据与基于抑制的效应解释相符。
