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Experiment 2 on the Effect of Sans Forgetica on Memory

Replication of Sans Forgetica team's original experiment, but with the researchers own a set of delays (10s, 20s, and 30s).
Participants: 156 participants from the TurkPrime platform.
Design: mixed design - used Sans Forgetica and Arial as a within-subject factor, and used delay as a between-subject factor.
Procedure: two phases conducted online.
- Phase One: participants were presented 20-word pairs and each would be on the screen for 100ms. The pairs were highly associated (like accident - crash). Half of the pairs were in Sans Forgetica and the other half were in Arial.
- Phase Two: the researchers used three delays (10s, 20s, and 30s) and each one was assigned to a participant. During the delay, multiplication problems would appear and the participants would be asked to solve them. After the delay, participants would be asked to recall the second pair word when the first word appeared on the screen.
Results: participants recalled fewer word pairs in Sans Forgetica than Arial.
- The results were the same for all three delays.
- Suggest that Sans Forgetica impairs the ability to recall.
- But, these results may be due to the fact that the pairs were presented for 100 ms. Sans Forgetica word pairs could not be deeply processed in time.

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Updated 2021-05-19

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