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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Learning Sciences

Background:

  • Retrieval practice, or the testing effect, enhances recall of studied material.
  • The extent to which retrieval practice benefits transfer to related, but not identical, material remains debated.
  • Analogical problem-solving involves applying knowledge from one situation to a new, similar one.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether retrieval practice enhances transfer of learning in analogical problem-solving.
  • To examine the conditions under which retrieval practice facilitates transfer to related problems.
  • To determine if retrieval practice promotes cued versus spontaneous transfer.

Main Methods:

  • Participants studied a source text with a problem and solution, followed by either restudy or retrieval practice.
  • After a short or long delay, participants attempted to solve a structurally similar target problem.
  • Experiment 3 manipulated the presence of a hint connecting the source and target texts.

Main Results:

  • Across Experiments 1 and 2, retrieval practice led to greater success in solving the target problem compared to restudying the source text.
  • In Experiment 3, retrieval practice did not significantly improve problem-solving performance, regardless of whether a hint was provided.
  • No difference was found in transfer performance between retrieval practice and restudy conditions when participants received an explicit hint.

Conclusions:

  • Retrieval practice can enhance analogical problem-solving transfer, particularly when the connection between problems is not explicitly stated.
  • The benefits of retrieval practice for transfer may be limited or absent when learners are cued to the relationship between source and target materials.
  • Further research is needed to understand the boundary conditions of retrieval-induced transfer in complex cognitive tasks.