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Conducted 7 experiments to test whether the nature of prior encoding determines performance on tasks which require Ss to retrieve information from long-term storage. The ambiguous word and remote associates task were used to assess retrieval performance. In Exp. I-III the relevance of prior encoding was assessed by using word association tests with 110 undergraduates. Results indicate that performance on word association tests can predict performance on ambiguous word or remote associates tests. The relevance of prior encoding was manipulated in Exp. IV-VII with 64 Ss in each. Results of these experiments reveal that the nature of prior encoding has considerable influence on search task performance. (17 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)