Contrasting orthographically similar words makes incorrect recall answers more target-like (more specific representations)¶

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q3 i? Incorrect recall answers for orthographically similar words were closer to the target in the sorted (contrasted) condition than in the shuffled condition; this held only for the orthographic condition. → Baxter 2022

Evidence¶

Baxter 2022¶

Baxter, P.A.; Bekkering, H.; Dijkstra, A.F.J.; Droop, W.; Hurk, M.M. van den; Léoné, F.T.M. (2022). Contrasting orthographically similar words facilitates adult second language vocabulary learning. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101582

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Exploratory Wilcoxon test on Levenshtein distances of incorrect answers in Experiment 1 showed sorted-condition errors "were indeed closer to the target"; the same test was not significant for semantically similar (p = .50) or dissimilar words (p = .92).

"incorrect answers in the sorted condition (M = 2.64, SD = 1.23) were indeed closer to the target than in the shuffled condition (M = 2.82, SD = 1.26), W = 125604, p < .05."

Discussion¶

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