Cued Recall Demonstration

1. Cued Recall Demonstration Langston, Cognitive Psychology

2. 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.

3. A brick can be used as a doorstop

4. A ladder can be used as a bookshelf

5. A wine bottle can be used as a candleholder

6. A pan can be used as a drum

7. A record can be used to serve potato chips

8. A guitar can be used as a canoe paddle

9. A leaf can be used as a bookmark

10. An orange can be used to play catch

11. A newspaper can be used to swat flies

12. A TV antenna can be used as a clothes rack

13. A sheet can be used as a sail

14. A boat can be used as a shelter

15. A bathtub can be used as a punch bowl

16. A flashlight can be used to hold water

17. A rock can be used as a paperweight

18. A knife can be used to stir paint

19. A pen can be used as an arrow

20. A barrel can be used as a chair

21. A rug can be used as a bedspread

22. A telephone can be used as an alarm clock

23. A scissors can be used to cut grass

24. A board can be used as a ruler

25. A balloon can be used as a pillow

26. A shoe can be used to pound nails

27. A dime can be used as a screwdriver

28. A lampshade can be used as a hat

29. ***RECALL THE LIST***

30. Data Analysis • How much were you able to recall? Let’s get some sample numbers. (I would predict moderate to low.)

31. 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, it’s constructing the correct cue to find the sentences. Let’s try recall again, with the cues:

32. Data Analysis

33. Data Analysis • This illustrates the importance of cues. Maybe stuff isn’t gone so much as hard to find.

34. End Cued Recall Demonstration