Is Temporal Spacing of Tests Helpful Even when It Inflates Error Rates?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1051-1057

  Pashler, Harold ^a   Zarow, Gregory ^b   Triplett, Baylor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EmpiricalMethods   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS;

EID: 0344111515     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.6.1051     Document Type: Article

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