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UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2017)

In skill acquisition, use of predictive relationships are needed to perform optimally and are assumed to be acquired independently of awareness. In three chapters, I investigated how individuals exploit the predictive relationships to their advantage and address the following questions: 1) Does exploitation of predictive relationships occur when there is no explicit knowledge of the underlying structure? 2) Might some of the findings in implicit learning have very limited generalizability? 3) Lastly, does averaging across subject data mask what is learned by individuals? Altogether, my dissertation revealed people 1) strongly favored simple and verbalizable relationships, 2) used explicit knowledge of the predictive task-relevant features for optimal performance, 3) used very different strategies that were only revealed in post-experiment questioning.

    Cover page: Incidental Learning and Explicit Knowledge
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    UC San Diego Previously Published Works (2015)
    Retrieval practice has been shown to enhance later recall of information reviewed through testing, whereas final-test measures involving making inferences from the learned information have produced mixed results. In four experiments, we examined whether the benefits of retrieval practice could transfer to deductive inferences. Participants studied a set of related premises and then reviewed these premises either by rereading or by taking fill-in-the-blank tests. As was expected, the testing condition produced better final-test recall of the premises. However, performance on multiple-choice inference questions showed no enhancement from retrieval practice.
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