An irrelevance prompt eliminates the recall cost of seductive details, supporting the diversion explanation¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q3 · i2 medium
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q3 i2 Control and irrelevance-prompt participants outperformed no-prompt participants on recall, per the focal contrast. → Kienitz 2023 q3 i? Perceived relevance and relative processing time on seductive details mediated the prompt's benefit for recall. → Kienitz 2023 (2)

Evidence¶

Kienitz 2023¶

Kienitz, A., Krebs, M.-C., & Eitel, A. (2023). Seductive details hamper learning even when they do not disrupt. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-023-09632-w

q3 · i2 · causal · r2

Orthogonal contrast analysis (+1, +1, −2) in ANCOVA reached significance for recall, F(1,177) = 11.580, p = .001, ηp2 = 0.061, but not for transfer, F(1,168) = 0.907, p = .342. The residual contrast was not significant for either outcome.

"The focal contrast thus revealed that participants in the control condition and the irrelevance-prompt condition outperformed participants in the no-prompt condition regarding recall but not transfer."

Kienitz 2023 (2)¶

Kienitz, A., Krebs, M.-C., & Eitel, A. (2023). Seductive details hamper learning even when they do not disrupt. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-023-09632-w

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Two-step mediation (prompt → perceived relevance → relative processing time → recall) was significant for recall; a one-step mediation via perceived relevance also reached significance (b = -0.12, 95% BootCI [-0.26, -0.01]). The transfer mediation was not significant (b = -0.01, 95% BootCI [-0.03, +0.01]).

"For recall, this mediation model was significant (b = -0.04, 95% BootCI [-0.09, -0.01]), supporting the diversion hypothesis (see also Fig. 3)."

Discussion¶

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