Craik and Watkins (1973) showed subjects lists of words (e.g. daughter oil rifle garden grain table football anchor giraffe) and told them that they would need to produce the last word begining with a given letter (e.g. G), so they had best rehearse that item. They manipulated the amount of time people had to rehearse and in a surprise recall test found:

A. Rehearsal had no impact on performance
B. Rehearsal compromized performance
C. Rehearsal improved performance

Ans: A. Rehearsal had no impact on performance

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