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Article: Effects of mobilizing prior knowledge on information processing: studies of free recall and allocation of study time.
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- British Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- November 1, 1993
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Which names would come to Dutch students' minds if they were asked to list as many US presidents as possible? They would probably mention Bush, Reagan, Kennedy, Nixon and a few other well-known presidents. If they were subsequently shown a list of US presidents' names in random order (Bush, Hayes, Coolidge, Nixon, Polk, Tyler, Reagan) and asked to recall the items on this list after a 20-minute delay, one might expect that they would recall their initial list better than the subsequent list. The basis for this expectation would be the so-called generation effect (Hirshman & Bjork, 1988; Nairne & Widner, 1987). This effect reflects the phenomenon that self-generated items ...