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Recency-sensitive retrieval processes in long-term free recall

1974; Elsevier BV; Volume: 6; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0010-0285(74)90009-7

1095-5623

Robert A. Bjork, William B. Whitten,

Expert finding and Q&A systems

In several experiments, each presentation of a to-be-remembered item in a free-recall list was both preceded and followed by a distracting activity and recall was delayed by an additional period of distracting activity. Pronounced long-term effects of recency were obtained, the standard short-term memory interpretation of recency effects in free recall notwithstanding. The results are interpreted as reflecting retrieval processes that are obscured by procedural characteristics of typical free-recall experiments.