When tested and new complementary information is presented together, interim testing on the tested material can impair learning of the new material (the borrowed time effect), which separate presentation can reverse¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? In Finn and Roediger's face-name-profession study, interim testing on names improved name recall but impaired recall of professions compared with restudy. → Chunliang Yang 2018 q2 i? Separating the interim test from encoding of the new pairs reversed the impairment, so the Interim Test group recalled more professions than the Interim Restudy group. → Chunliang Yang 2018 (2)

Evidence¶

Chunliang Yang 2018¶

Chunliang Yang, Rosalind Potts and David R. Shanks. (2018). Enhancing learning and retrieval of new information: a review of the forward testing effect. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-018-0024-y

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The review reports Finn and Roediger's face-name-profession experiment with a 24-hour delayed final test, where the Interim Test group tested on names saw faces with names and professions presented simultaneously afterwards; the quote gives the reversed pattern attributed to names borrowing encoding time.

"the Interim Test group correctly recalled more names than the Interim Restudy group, whereas the recall of professions showed the reverse pattern: The Interim Restudy group recalled more professions than the Interim Test group"

Chunliang Yang 2018 (2)¶

Chunliang Yang, Rosalind Potts and David R. Shanks. (2018). Enhancing learning and retrieval of new information: a review of the forward testing effect. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-018-0024-y

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The review reports Davis and Chan's Experiment 4, which separated the interim test on face-name pairs from the encoding of face-profession pairs; the quote shows the negative effect was eliminated and reversed, though the review notes testing then impaired memory for names relative to restudy.

"the Interim Test group recalled more professions than the Interim Restudy group"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• In paired-associate learning, interim testing about doubles recall of new face-name and foreign-translation pairs relative to a distractor control — reports the opposite