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Experiment 4 on the Effect of Sans Forgetica on Memory

Tested the effect of Sans Forgetica with higher-level conceptual questions.
Participants: 319 MTurk workers (but after exclusions, 275 participants’ results were recorded).
Design: manipulation of Sans Forgetica and Arial within-subjects.
Procedure: the same as Experiment 3, except:
- Phase One: participants read six passages and each is longer than experiment 3. In each passage, there are four paragraphs. Two are in Sans Forgetica, and the other two are in Arial. Two important paragraphs of the four will be used for questioning later which one is Sans Forgetica, and the other is Arial.
- Phase Two: participants were asked to answer 12 cued-recall questions that are meant to test the participants' understanding of the passage. For each of the six passages, the test will ask a question that relates to the Sans Forgetica paragraph and another question that relates to the Arial paragraph.
Results: a coding scheme was used to grade the participants' answers. Answers were scored out from 0 to 2 points (0 = incorrect, 1 = partially correct, 2 = correct).
- Comparing the percentage of points, the researchers found no evidence supporting that Sans Forgetica boosts performance on conceptual questions.
- The number of points between Sans Forgetica and Arial were almost the same.

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Updated 2021-05-19

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