Abstract
The free recall of successive partially overlapping lists was studied, using Anderson and Bower's 1972 model to derive specific predictions. All predictions were supported by the data. Specifically, items repeated across lists showed depressed recall relative to new items, particularly when repeated across multiple lists. Knowledge of the interlist relationship served only to reduce the level of negative transfer relative to an uninformed condition. The data on a test of list identification given to the experimental informed and uninformed conditions and to a control condition with nonoverlapping lists also support the model of the role of list tagging and contextual elements in the recall decision.
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