A limit on retrieval-induced forgetting

Retrieving some members of a memory set impairs later recall of semanticall y related but not unrelated members (M. C. Anderson, R. A. Bjork, & E. L. B jork, 1994; M. C. Anderson & B. A. Spellman, 1995), The authors investigate d whether this retrieval-induced forgetting effect would generalize to test ing procedures other than category-cued recall. Although the authors demons trated a retrieval - induced forgetting effect using a category-cued recall task, they failed to show retrieval-induced forgetting on several differen t memory tests that used item-specific cues, including a category-plus-stem -cued recall test, a category-plus-fragment-cued recall test, a fragment-cu ed recall test, and a fragment completion task.