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Paired Associates Test
Six word pairs with nothing in common — apple goes with lantern. Study them, then type the matching word for each cue. The pairs you miss come back for another round, up to three in total, so we can see how quickly you learn new associations.
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About the Paired Associates Test
This is an associative learning task from memory research. Unlike verbal memory — where you judge whether a word is new — here you must build a fresh link between two unrelated words and recall the target when only the cue shows. It draws on episodic memory and the hippocampus, much like learning a name to a face.
Six random pairs are drawn from a fixed list. After studying them you are tested on every pair; the ones you miss are studied again and retested, for up to three total rounds. Reaching zero mistakes in round one means a single trial to criterion — a very good score.