distractor
Noun
Meaning
distractor (plural distractors)
Alternative spelling of distracter
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After the final word-pair, subjects had to do the multiplication distractor task for 20 seconds.
As evidence, they provided the results of their experiment, in which the long-term recency effect disappeared when the distractor after the last item differed from the distractors that preceded and followed all the other items (e.
However, when distractor tasks are placed before and after each item, the recency effect returns, because all the list items once again have similar processing context.
At the same time, retrieval cues for these items are no longer as effective as without the distractor.
Subjects were presented with four study-test periods of 10 word lists, with a continual distractor task (20-second period of counting-backward).