The Production Effect: Costs and Benefits in Free Recall.
The production effect, the memorial benefit for information read aloud versus silently, has been touted as a simple memory improvement tool. The current experiments were designed to evaluate the relative costs and benefits of production using a free recall paradigm. Results extend beyond prior work...
| Published in: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 300 - 306 |
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American Psychological Association
Jan2014
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| Summary: | The production effect, the memorial benefit for information read aloud versus silently, has been touted as a simple memory improvement tool. The current experiments were designed to evaluate the relative costs and benefits of production using a free recall paradigm. Results extend beyond prior work showing a production effect only when production is manipulated within subject, not between, using a free recall paradigm. Furthermore, the results also indicate that the production effect is primarily driven by decreased memory for items read silently, not increased memory for items read aloud. |
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