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

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q2 i? In the face-name paired-associate studies reviewed, the Interim Test group correctly recalled about twice as many names as the Interim Distractor group in the List 4 interim test. → Chunliang Yang 2018

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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 paired-associate forward testing experiments by Weinstein et al. and Yang et al. using four lists of face-name pairs with Interim Test and Interim Distractor conditions; the quote gives the doubled name recall, and the review adds that distractor groups showed substantially more PI and that the effect extends to Swahili-English and Euskara-English pairs.

"the Interim Test group correctly recalled about twice as many names as the Interim Distractor group in the List 4 interim test"

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