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Distractor meaning
Alternative spelling of distracter.
Example sentences (7)
Note that the modifier "significantly" is vague and can only act as a distractor.
Because divide and rule is the ultimate distractor.
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.
At the same time, retrieval cues for these items are no longer as effective as without the distractor.
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.
Subjects were presented with four study-test periods of 10 word lists, with a continual distractor task (20-second period of counting-backward).