Presentation - The Higher Education Academy

Benjamin, Bjork, and Schwartz (1998)
Question phase (20 easy general knowledge questions)
E.g., “Who was the first president of the United States?”
For each question, participants
1. hit enter button when answer “came to mind” (response time
recorded);
2. typed answer;
3. predicted subsequent free recall of the answer
Distraction (20 minutes of puzzle solving)
Free-recall test for answers generated during the
question phase