Pair-Relationship and Processing-Task Cues in Recall of Incidentally Learned Paired Associates
Michael L. Epstein, David A. Dupree · Psychological Reports · 1977
20 students found similarities or differences between 64 pairs of related and unrelated concrete nouns. Subjects' recall of the second member of each pair when cued with the first was significantly affected by processing depth and cuing condition. Cuing subjects with the pair and/or processing relationship of the cue word to the to-be-recalled word facilitated recall. The findings are seen as partially supportive of the encoding specificity principle.