Forgetting and remembering in free recall: Intentional and unintentional.

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Designed 2 free recall experiments with 36 and 48 undergraduates to study the processes by which Ss remember some items and forget others. In both experiments, Ss were cued immediately after each word in a list whether to remember (R) or to forget (F) that word. After each of 6 such lists, Ss were asked to recall the R words and to avoid recalling the F words. In general, Ss were remarkably able to do both. At the end of the experiment, Ss were asked, without forewarning, to recall any and all R and F words they could remember. Final recall of F words from lists of common nouns was very poor, while recall from categorized lists was very good, given that there were R words in the same semantic category. Results suggest that the differential rehearsal devoted to R words operates primarily on retrieval rather than on storage. (17 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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