Rehearsal Strategies Can Enlarge or Diminish the Spacing Effect: Pure Versus Mixed Lists and Encoding Strategy

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1148-1161

  Delaney, Peter F ^a   Verkoeijen, Peter P J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

list strength effect; long term memory; output interference; rehearsal; spacing effect

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; REINFORCEMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT, VERBAL; SERIAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 68949208494     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016380     Document Type: Article

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