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The proverb "Different strokes for different folks" from the mid 1950s stands as the American proverb par excellence.
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On unrelated trials, two unrelated proverbs from two different proverb pairs were randomly paired together and presented like the related pairs.
Participants studied a sequence of related, but superficially different, proverb pairs.
In her tongue-in-cheek experiment, Rachel practiced a different proverb for every month.
Participants understood the deep meanings of the proverbs and often relied upon them to make connections between superficially different proverbs.
During encoding, learners in the reminding group were able to successfully connect two superficially different proverbs that shared the same deep meaning, as indicated by the high rate with which P2 reminded learners of P1.
As Ronald Regan said (quoting a Russian proverb) in a very different context, "Trust but verify".
In many ways, proverbs are not so different from short quotations that have gained a considerable currency of usage.
Let's start to replace this with the Nigerian proverb: "the earth moves at different speeds depending on who you are".
Reminding intermixes stimuli so that learners can compare and contrast between different pairs of proverbs, while the comparison process reduces the likelihood that learners compare across pairs.
By giving learners a "hint" to look back through the study list, we likely increased the number of connections made between superficially different but deeply related proverbs.
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