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Christiaansen, Robert E.; Dooling, D. James – 1975
The encoding specificity principle predicts that a change in context between input and test will adversely affect recognition memory. Experiment I tested this with sentences from a prose passage and no context effects were obtained. Experiments II, III, and IV compared context effects for words in random sentences versus connected discourse. In…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Context Clues, Cues
