Abstract
This experiment examined the efficacy of extralist retrieval cues when encoding tasks were varied. Subjects were induced to produce three types of words: typical modifiers of the target words in the elaborative processing task, atypical ones in the distinctive processing task, and words of which the first letters were identical with the last letters of the targets in the control processing task. After the encoding phase, each subject was given either a free recall or an extralist cued recall test. In the elaborative condition, extralist cued recall was superior to free recall, whereas in the distinctive and control conditions, the difference between the two types of retrieval was not significant. The results were interpreted in support of encoding specificity.
