Is a test trial a training trial in free recall learning?

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MULTITRIAL FREE RECALL CONSISTS OF REPEATED TRAINING AND TEST-TRIAL CYCLES. SEVERAL HYPOTHESES RELATING TO THE EFFECTS OF TEST TRIALS ON SUBSEQUENT RESPONSE PROBABILITY WERE EXAMINED IN 2 EXPERIMENTS BY MAKING VARIOUS COMPARISONS BETWEEN RECALL AFTER SEVERAL TRAINING-TEST CYCLES AND RECALL AFTER TRAINING TRIALS SOLELY. SS WERE 168 PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS. DATA WERE COLLECTED FOR 2 TYPES OF WORD LIST AND 2 ORDERS OF PRESENTATION: CONSTANT VS. VARIABLE WORD ORDER BETWEEN TRIALS. A CONSTANT WORD ORDER WAS CONSISTENTLY SUPERIOR TO A VARIABLE ORDER; THIS DISCREPANCY WITH PREVIOUS RESEARCH WAS EXPLORED. ONLY 1 OF THE ORIGINAL HYPOTHESES WAS SUPPORTED: A TEST TRIAL SHARPLY AUGMENTS RESPONSE PROBABILITY. 2 FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO FREE-RECALL LEARNING: THE TRAINING TRIAL AND THE TEST TRIAL, AND EACH IN VARYING DEGREES AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF TRAINING. FREE-RECALL TRIALS INTERPOLATED DURING TRAINING TO MEASURE CHANGES IN THE STATE OF THE HUMAN MEMORY SYSTEM HAVE PROFOUND AND PERHAPS RESIDUAL EFFECTS ON THE STATE OF THAT SYSTEM. SEVERAL MECHANISMS POSSIBLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EFFECTS OF TEST TRIALS ARE EXAMINED. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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