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Testing the Cue Dependence of Problem-Solving-Induced Forgetting

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dc.creator Storm, Benjamin C.
dc.creator Koppel, Rebecca H.
dc.date 2012-05-12T03:23:04Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-24T14:18:18Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-24T14:18:18Z
dc.identifier http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jps/vol4/iss2/4
dc.identifier http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=jps
dc.identifier.uri http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=jps
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/25650
dc.description 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-solvinginduced 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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dc.publisher Purdue University
dc.source The Journal of Problem Solving
dc.subject problem solving
dc.subject memory
dc.subject forgetting
dc.subject retrieval-induced forgetting
dc.subject cue independence
dc.subject fixation
dc.title Testing the Cue Dependence of Problem-Solving-Induced Forgetting
dc.type Article


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