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@@ -27,4 +27,6 @@ Yet another lovely read from Chris Arnade. Yet another antidote to the Japan slo
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 > Increased [attention](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543043001083?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.154) to the to-be-learned material could be another factor. Pan and his colleagues have [observed](https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1016%2Fj.jarmac.2020.07.004) reduced mind-wandering after pretesting, and other researchers have [shown](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0163853X.2012.662801) that participants’ eyes focus more on sentences related to the questions they received in advance. Other potential mechanisms include an [improved](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3631699/) motivation to learn and that pretesting [acts](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-15804-016) as a metacognitive ‘reality check’, highlighting what you do and do not know and encouraging you to fill in knowledge gaps.
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-> Whatever the mechanism is, when you later need that information, you’re more likely to recall it after a pretest than if you had simply read it.
+> Whatever the mechanism is, when you later need that information, you’re more likely to recall it after a pretest than if you had simply read it.
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+#### Mental Health Diagnosis