EXP3604
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
COGLAB ASSIGNMENT #6:
NAME____________________
ENCODING SPECIFICITY
Your Results:
Test condition:
None
Cue A
Cue B
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Cue A
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Cue B
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Study Condition:
None
Questions:
1. Which conditions are to be compared to test whether you showed the “encoding specificity”
effect found by Thompson & Tulving (1970)? Did you observe this effect?
2. Within the Cue-word condition, some of the cue words were strong associates of the test word
(e.g., hard-FIRM); others were less strongly associated. Given Tulving’s view of encoding
specificity, how might the strength of prior associations affect your results?