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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.
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This research was supported by Grant MH-15157-14 from the National Institute of Mental Health and Air Force Grant AFOSR-87-0282 to Gordon H. Bower. Experiment 2 was done with the assistance of Eric Brandon.
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Sloman, S.A. Part-set cuing inhibition in category-instance and reason generation. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 29, 136–138 (1991). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335216
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