Cued Recall Demonstration

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Cued Recall Demonstration

• Langston,
• Cognitive Psychology

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Instructions

• You are going to see a list of sentences.
• Pay attention to the sentences and try to
  remember as many as you can.
• When the instruction to recall appears, write
  down all of the sentences you can.

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A brick can be used as a doorstop
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A ladder can be used as a bookshelf
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A wine bottle can be used as a candleholder
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A pan can be used as a drum
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A record can be used to serve potato chips
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A guitar can be used as a canoe paddle
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A leaf can be used as a bookmark
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An orange can be used to play catch
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A newspaper can be used to swat flies
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A TV antenna can be used as a clothes rack
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A sheet can be used as a sail
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A boat can be used as a shelter
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A bathtub can be used as a punch bowl
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A flashlight can be used to hold water
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A rock can be used as a paperweight
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A knife can be used to stir paint
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A pen can be used as an arrow
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A barrel can be used as a chair
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A rug can be used as a bedspread
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A telephone can be used as an alarm clock
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A scissors can be used to cut grass
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A board can be used as a ruler
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A balloon can be used as a pillow
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A shoe can be used to pound nails
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A dime can be used as a screwdriver
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A lampshade can be used as a hat
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RECALL THE LIST
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Data Analysis

• How much were you able to recall? Lets get some
  sample numbers. (I would predict moderate to
  low.)

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Data Analysis

• However, I would be willing to bet that almost
  everyone in here actually knows most of them, if
  not all. The problem is not remembering, its
  constructing the correct cue to find the
  sentences. Lets try recall again, with the cues

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Data Analysis
Flashlight Lampshade Sheet
Shoe Rock Guitar
Telephone Scissors Boat
Leaf Dime Brick
Wine Bottle Knife Board
Newspaper Pen Pan
Balloon Barrel Ladder
Rug Record Orange
TV Antenna Bathtub
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Data Analysis

• This illustrates the importance of cues. Maybe
  stuff isnt gone so much as hard to find.

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End Cued Recall Demonstration