Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 489-497.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.04.05

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Part-list Cuing Effect in Working Memory: Effects of Task Presentation Mode

LIU Tuanli1, SHAN Yafei3, XING Min1,2, BAI Xuejun2   

  1. 1. School of Education Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000;
    2. Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    3. Student Affair Department, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou 466001
  • Published:2021-07-26

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Abstract: When people are asked to recall words they have studied earlier from a list, those given a subset of these words as cues recall fewer words than people who do not receive any cues. This phenomenon is the so called part-list cuing effect. Whereas many studies have examined part-list cuing effect in long-term memory, the mechanisms and effects of part-list cuing effect within working memory are less well understood. The current study tests how part-list cuing instructions delivered in a working memory task influence veridical memory over the short term.
Using a modified item recognition task, and adopting category-sample words as stimulus, we investigated the part-list cuing effect in working memory through two experiments. The cue trials and uncue trials in Experiment 1 were presented in separate blocks. While in Experiment 2, the cue trials and uncue trials were presented in the same block with a pseudo-random order. The accuracy and reaction time were chosen as statistical indexes.
The results show that:(1) The part-list cuing effect exists in working memory; (2) When the cue trials and uncue trials were presented in separate blocks, participants' recognition accuracy and discriminability were lower in the part-list cuing condition than in the non-cue condition, and the reaction time was longer in the part-list cuing condition, whereas the response bias was higher in the part-list cuing condition; (3) When the cue trials were randomly interleaved with uncue trials, participants' recognition accuracy was lower in the part-list cuing condition than in the non-cue condition, the response bias was higher in the part-list cuing condition, whereas discriminability and reaction time were not significant different under the two conditions.
The results of this study imply that the task presentation mode has influence on memory performance for part-list cuing effect in working memory. Partial results provide evidence for the retrieval inhibition hypothesis, but the effect of part-list cues was constraint to a limited attention resource in working memory.

Key words: part-list cuing effect, working memory, task presentation mode, retrieval inhibition hypothesis

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