RECALL OF PREVIOUSLY UNRECALLABLE INFORMATION FOLLOWING A SHIFT IN PERSPECTIVE

his assistance in interviewing subjects and scoring recall protocols and Andrew Ortony and Rand Spiro for their helpful comments on a draft of this paper. Recall After a Perspective Shift 1 College undergraduates read a story about two boys playing hooky from school from the perspective of either a burglar or a person interested in buying a home. After recalling the story once, subjects were directed to shift per-spectives and then recall the story again. In two experiments, subjects produced on the second recall significantly more information Important to the second perspective that had been unimportant to the first. They also recalled less information unlrportant to the second perspective which had been impor-tant to the first. These data clearly show the operation of retrieval processes independent from encoding processes. An analysis of Intervie