Abstract
The present experiment was carried out to examine whether the type of context in recognition tasks influenced memory processes in recall and recognition. After the practice list had been studied, subjects were given 24 critical test list word pairs. Following the free associates task or the non-verbal task, they received forced-choice recognition tasks, and then they were tested with 24 words by cued recall. Recognition failure of recallable words and recall superiority over recognition were observed in the different context condition under the free associates task, while they were reduced under other conditions. The results were explained from the inter-task interference position rather than the principle of encoding specificity.