The part-list cueing effect, also called the part-set cuing effect, is the finding that giving a person part of a list of items to be remembered as retrieval cues often makes it harder for them to recall the remaining, uncued items, compared with a plain free-recall attempt with no cues at all. It was first identified by Norman Slamecka in 1968.
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Core ClaimGiving a person part of a list of items to be remembered as retrieval cues often makes it harder for them to recall the remaining, uncued items, compared with a plain free recall test. 1 First Described Year Classification
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1. Wikipedia: Memory Inhibition
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The "part-set cuing effect" was initially discovered by Slamecka (1968), who found that providing a portion of to-be-remembered items as test cues often impairs retrieval of the remaining un-cued items compared with performance in a no-cue (free-recall) control condition.
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In psychology, memory inhibition is the ability not to remember irrelevant information.
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