of connections between related concepts has been reinforced by findings dealing with semantic memory by Collins & Quillian, (1969); McCloskey & Gluckberg, (1978); Meyer & Schvaneveldt (1971), (as cited in Nelson, Bennett, Gee, Schreiber, & McKinney, 1993). This hypothesis has lead to a variety of new research to determine how the activation of connected concepts can affect word recognition and recall. For example, when a stimulus is applied, the recognition of that word is affected by the number of words in memory that share letters with that particular stimulus ( et al, Nelson, Bennett, Gee, Schreiber, McKinney, 1993). Cued recall of a word that had just been presented depends on the activation of implicit memory as well as explicit activation of !
             related memories. By implicit memory, I mean memory that is unconscious, in which previously acquired information influences behavior or thought without itself entering the conscious mind. Explicit memory is defined as conscious and can be assessed directly. Craik and Tulving (1975) proposed that recall is affected by how subjects process the word during study and by what the word implicitly activates in long-term memory (as cited in Nelson, Bennett, Gee, Schreiber, McKinney, 1993).
             Nelson, Bennett, Gee, Schreiber, and McKinney (1993) performed a series of experiments on implicit memory and the effects of network size and interconnectivity on cued recall. The purpose of these experiments was to determine whether recall of a recently studied word is affected by how many associates it has in long-term memory (set size). Studied words were pre selected to represent combinations of set size and connectivity. Target set size effects indicate that the number of links associated with the target word affect its recall (Nelson, Bennett, Gee, Schreiber, & McKinney , 1993). These researchers also propose that memories that are activated implicitly play a role when the nature of this ...