Retrieval Practice Benefits Deductive Inference
| Autor: | Luke G. Eglington, Sean H. K. Kang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Logical reasoning
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Inference Educational psychology 050109 social psychology computer.software_genre 050105 experimental psychology Free recall Reading (process) Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Artificial intelligence Testing effect Set (psychology) Psychology business computer Social psychology Natural language processing Sentence media_common |
| Zdroj: | Educational Psychology Review. 30:215-228 |
| ISSN: | 1573-336X 1040-726X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10648-016-9386-y |
| Popis: | Retrieval practice has been shown to benefit learning. However, the benefit has sometimes been attenuated with more complex materials that require integrating multiple units of information. Critically, Tran et al. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 135–140 (2015) found that retrieval practice improves sentence memory but not the drawing of inferences from the same sentences. In three experiments, we investigated whether this lack of benefit of retrieval practice for inferential ability was due to the presentation format of the material. Participants studied four sets of seven to nine related sentences by practicing retrieval for two sets and rereading the other two sets. A final test was given 2 days later. When sentences were presented one at a time during study/practice as in Tran et al., we found no effect of retrieval practice on a test requiring inferential reasoning. When sentences in a set were presented simultaneously during study/practice, retrieval practice in the form of fill-in-the-blank testing (experiments 1 and 2) and free recall (experiment 3) aided later deductive inference more than rereading. Our findings suggest that retrieval practice can improve deductive inference, but in order to optimize its utility, the format in which the material is presented during practice must not hinder relational processing of the individual sentences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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