Retention of Solutions: It Is Better to Give than to Receive

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Subjects first attempted to complete familiar phrases with either minimal or strong cues to solutions. If solution generation failed, answers were provided. One-week retention was better following successful generation than either unsuccessful generation or mere reading of answers. Retention was also better if success had been achieved with minimal cues. These findings are interpreted as suggesting that representation in semantic memory as a gestalt or functional unit determines the emergence of the generation effect and that cognitive effort is a factor in the strength of the generation effect.

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