The generation effect when generation fails

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal BehaviorPublished 1 April 1983

Norman J. Slamucka, Jacobo Fevreiski

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Abstract

In a generation-effect paradigm, generation of opposites to stimulus words was strongly influenced by the number of response letters provided. Experiment 1 found recall of these responses to be independent of subjects' prior success or failure in generating them, and higher than Read. Experiment 2 extended these findings and also showed response recognition to be poorer for failures than successes. Experiment 3 showed significant recognition of failed items even when they were not displayed at input. It was hypothesized that generation failures were really incomplete generations, where semantic, but not surface, features were processed. The interpretation that recognition rather than recall was more sensitive to detection of ungenerated surface features accounted for the differential test outcomes.

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