Testing the Cue Dependence of Problem-Solving-Induced Forgetting
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| Title: | Testing the Cue Dependence of Problem-Solving-Induced Forgetting |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Storm, Benjamin C., Koppel, Rebecca H. |
| Source: | Journal of Problem Solving. May 2012 4(2):50-65. |
| Availability: | Purdue University Press. Stewart Center Room 370, 504 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Tel: 800-247-6553; Fax: 419-281-6883; e-mail: pupress@purdue,edu; Web site: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jps/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 16 |
| Publication Date: | 2012 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Cues, Problem Solving, Memory, Undergraduate Students, Responses, Test Format, Correlation, Regression (Statistics) |
| Geographic Terms: | Illinois (Chicago) |
| Assessment and Survey Identifiers: | Remote Associates Test |
| DOI: | 10.7771/1932-6246.1125 |
| ISSN: | 1932-6246 |
| Abstract: | Thinking and remembering can cause forgetting. In the context of remembering, retrieving one item can cause the forgetting of other items (Anderson, Bjork, & Bjork, 1994). A similar phenomenon has been observed in the context of creative problem solving--attempting to generate a target associate in the Remote Associates Test (RAT) can cause the forgetting of inappropriate associates (Storm, Angello, & Bjork, 2011). Experiment 1 examined whether this problem-solving-induced forgetting is cue dependent or cue independent by manipulating the cues used at final test. Whereas some participants were tested on the inappropriate associates using the same cues that were used during problem solving, other participants were tested using new, or independent, cues. Problem-solving-induced forgetting was observed in the same-cue condition, but not in the new-cue condition. Experiment 2 replicated the overall absence of problem-solving-induced forgetting in the new-cue condition and found that individual differences in cue-independent forgetting did not predict problem-solving performance on a separate set of RAT problems. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 44 |
| Entry Date: | 2016 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1115810 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Thinking and remembering can cause forgetting. In the context of remembering, retrieving one item can cause the forgetting of other items (Anderson, Bjork, & Bjork, 1994). A similar phenomenon has been observed in the context of creative problem solving--attempting to generate a target associate in the Remote Associates Test (RAT) can cause the forgetting of inappropriate associates (Storm, Angello, & Bjork, 2011). Experiment 1 examined whether this problem-solving-induced forgetting is cue dependent or cue independent by manipulating the cues used at final test. Whereas some participants were tested on the inappropriate associates using the same cues that were used during problem solving, other participants were tested using new, or independent, cues. Problem-solving-induced forgetting was observed in the same-cue condition, but not in the new-cue condition. Experiment 2 replicated the overall absence of problem-solving-induced forgetting in the new-cue condition and found that individual differences in cue-independent forgetting did not predict problem-solving performance on a separate set of RAT problems. |
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| ISSN: | 1932-6246 |
| DOI: | 10.7771/1932-6246.1125 |
