title: Self-generated retrievals while multitasking improve memory for names.
abstract: We used a translational research paradigm to investigate whether distributed retrievals could benefit name learning in social situations. Undergraduates (N=64) were trained to generate distributed retrievals while they were multitasking. Students learned to generate distributed retrievals according to either an expanding or a uniform schedule. Their self-generated distributed retrievals while they were multitasking were effective in improving name recall for both retrieval schedules. The increase with self-generated retrievals while multitasking was greater (η² =.76) than the increase that Helder and Shaughnessy ( 2008 ) found with experimenter-controlled retrievals while multitasking (η² =.42). These findings provide evidence that the beneficial effect of distributed retrievals can extend to learning names in a social situation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Helder
authors.forename: John J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Shaughnessy
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009275:Names; D011597:Psychomotor Performance