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Table 2 Cue-target pairs used in Experiments 1, 2, and 3

From: How to activate students’ natural desire to test themselves

Cue

CDcount1

CDcount2

CDcount3

CDcount4

Target

area

handed

hatred

hanged

hacked

harmed

army

hooker

holler

hotter

hoover

holder

back

harder

hammer

harper

hamper

hanger

bath

talked

tasted

tapped

tagged

tailed

beer

shakes

shares

shines

shades

shapes

bird

better

beaver

bender

beeper

bearer

cell

member

merger

meaner

mercer

meager

city

sheets

shorts

shirts

shoots

shifts

data

denied

deemed

defied

dented

decked

debt

sticks

stinks

stocks

steaks

stacks

desk

grades

graves

grapes

graces

groves

dirt

dinner

diaper

differ

digger

dipper

disk

career

cancer

carter

caller

camper

exam

called

caused

canned

carved

cashed

fact

blades

blames

blazes

blokes

blares

film

killer

kisser

kinder

kicker

kidder

fish

states

stores

stones

stakes

stages

food

butter

burger

buster

bummer

butler

form

branch

breach

brunch

brooch

breech

game

powder

potter

poster

porter

poorer

gate

corner

cooler

cooper

copper

colder

gene

booked

bombed

boiled

bolted

bonded

girl

intact

insect

inject

infect

indict

goal

stayed

stoned

stated

stored

stared

hair

lawyer

larger

ladder

latter

lather

hall

proves

prices

prizes

prunes

probes

heat

ruined

rushed

rubbed

rugged

rusted

idea

server

seller

sexier

sender

seeker

king

chores

chimes

chases

chutes

chokes

lady

doomed

dotted

docked

dodged

downed

lake

heater

helper

healer

heller

heifer

life

seemed

served

sealed

seated

sensed

loss

proved

prayed

primed

prized

priced

love

banker

barber

banner

batter

banter

mall

backed

banged

bailed

banned

bagged

math

raised

rained

ragged

raided

ratted

meal

pulled

pushed

pumped

puffed

purged

meat

bother

border

bomber

boiler

booger

menu

horses

houses

hooves

homies

hordes

mode

damned

danced

darned

dawned

dashed

mood

solved

soaked

sorted

soiled

socked

news

passed

packed

parked

parted

padded

oven

dealer

deeper

dexter

deader

decker

part

wanted

walked

waited

wasted

warned

poem

forced

fooled

formed

forged

folded

poet

looked

locked

loaded

loaned

lodged

road

common

cotton

coupon

cocoon

cordon

role

matter

master

manner

marker

madder

song

robbed

rolled

rocked

rooted

routed

soup

danger

dancer

darker

dagger

damper

tale

winner

winter

wiener

wilder

wither

time

jammed

jacked

jailed

jazzed

jagged

town

scares

scores

scenes

scales

scones

unit

sister

silver

singer

sinner

simmer

user

buried

burned

busted

bumped

bugged

week

summer

suffer

supper

sucker

surfer

wife

cooked

copied

cooped

conned

cooled

wood

marked

mashed

mailed

masked

mapped

work

taller

talker

tanker

tanner

tamper

year

wicked

wished

winged

winked

willed

  1. Note: The cue word is listed in the left-most column. The remaining columns list the five most common words (based on the numerical CDcount value within Subtlexus) for that letter combination (e.g., ha__ed). The final column is the fifth most popular word and represents the target used in the experiment