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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 26.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Cogn Psychol. 2012 May-June;26(3):462–474. doi: 10.1002/acp.2832

Table 3.

Examples of coded recall items

Patient case Fact from master
coding guide
Participant responses
Fact–specific recall Fact–non-specific recall Conjectured feature
Substance abuse case Drinks two and a half
cases of beer a week
‘Drinks 2.5 cases of beer
per week’
‘Drinks several cases of beer’ ‘Compulsive drinker/alcoholic’
Eating disorder case Laxatives to purge when
at work
‘Uses laxatives to purge if
she’s at work’
‘She reported use of laxatives’ ‘Using compensatory behaviors
to control her weight’
Jumble Lost friends because
of irritability
‘Has lost friends due to
his irritability’
‘Has lost some friends because
of the way he acts’
‘Socially isolated’

Note: Items in quotes are actual participant responses.