The Generation Effect: Continuity between Generating and Reading
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Illinois Press in The American Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 98 (3) , 373-378
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1422623
Abstract
It has previously been found that a word from a list is more likely to be recalled if it is generated, as opposed to read, by the subject. This study investigated the relationship between generate and read tasks by systematically varying the number of letters omitted from the to-be-recalled words. The data conformed to a simple linear trend. This finding suggests a fundamental continuity, rather than any discontinuity, in the processes determining the recallability of read and self-generated words.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Self and MemoryPsychology of Learning and Motivation, 1981