What is the fan effect?
a. the finding that memory is better for fans of a topic
b. an increase in retrieval time with an increase in the number of newly learned associations with a concept
c. an increase in memory performance when there is a fan on to drown out ambient noise
d. an change in the loss of memories as a function of the orthographic neighborhood
Answer: b
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