PART-SET CUEING INHIBITION IN CATEGORY-INSTANCE AND REASON GENERATION

Two experiments are reported in which the existence of part-set cuing inhibition was confirmed with tasks that involved the generation of items from general knowledge. In Experiment 1, larger part-set inhibition effects were observed in a task of category-instance generation than in an episodic task of category-instance cued recall. In Experiment 2, the number of reasons generated concerning a hypothesis was reduced through the presentation of example reasons. The presence of the example reasons did not affect likelihood judgments concerning the issue; however, judgments were higher for one of two issues when pro rather than con reasons were generated. © 1991, The Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.