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The self-choice effect from a multiple-cue perspective.

Tomoyuki Watanabe1, Sal A Soraci

  • 1Department of Human Developmental Science, Sendai Shirayuri Women's College, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. watanabe@sendai-shirayuri.ac.jp

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
|May 1, 2004
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Self-chosen items are better remembered than assigned ones. This is because choosing items enhances memory retrieval through activated context, acting as retrieval cues.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Memory Research

Background:

  • The self-choice effect demonstrates superior recall for self-selected items over experimenter-assigned items.
  • Prior research suggests memory performance is influenced by the degree of personal agency in item selection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if response choice during encoding involves relational processing, activating both target and context items.
  • To determine if activated context items serve as effective retrieval cues for target item recall.
  • To test the hypothesis that self-choice enhances memory through activated contextual information.

Main Methods:

  • Participants either chose or were assigned target items for memory recall.
  • Context words, related new words, or unrelated words were presented as potential retrieval cues before free recall.

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  • A recognition task was employed to assess the effectiveness of these cues and encoding processes.

    • Main Results:

    • Incidental retrieval cues were significantly more effective in the self-choice condition compared to the assigned condition.
    • The self-choice condition showed a higher rate of correctly recognized context words.
    • The self-choice condition also exhibited an increased rate of falsely recognizing related new words.

    Conclusions:

    • Response choice at encoding activates context items, which then function as effective retrieval cues for target item recall.
    • The findings support the role of relational processing and activated context in the self-choice effect.
    • These mechanisms align with the multiple-cue theory of generative processing in memory.