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

Using 5 experiments, the authors explored the dependency of spacing effects on rehearsal patterns. Encouraging rehearsal borrowing produced opposing effects on mixed lists (containing both spaced and massed repetitions) and pure lists (containing only one or the other), magnifying spacing effects on...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition memory, and cognition, 2009-09, Vol.35 (5), p.1148-1161
Main Authors: Delaney, Peter F, Verkoeijen, Peter P. J. L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis of Variance
Attention - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
College Students
Concept Formation
Experimental Psychology
Experiments
Female
Florida
Free Recall
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Information processing
Learning Strategies
Learning. Memory
Long Term Memory
Male
Memory
Mental Recall - physiology
North Carolina
Pattern recognition
Practice
Protocol Analysis
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Recall (Psychology)
Recognition (Psychology)
Recognition (Psychology) - physiology
Reinforcement, Verbal
Serial Learning - physiology
Serial Recall
Space Perception - physiology
Stimulus Parameters
Time Factors (Learning)
Universities
Vocabulary
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Summary:Using 5 experiments, the authors explored the dependency of spacing effects on rehearsal patterns. Encouraging rehearsal borrowing produced opposing effects on mixed lists (containing both spaced and massed repetitions) and pure lists (containing only one or the other), magnifying spacing effects on mixed lists but diminishing spacing effects on pure lists. Rehearsing with borrowing produced large spacing effects on mixed lists but not on pure lists for both free recall (Experiment 1) and recognition (Experiment 2). In contrast, rehearsing only the currently visible item produced spacing effects on both mixed lists and pure lists in free recall (Experiment 3) and recognition (Experiment 4). Experiment 5 demonstrated these effects using a fully within-subjects design. Rehearse-aloud protocols showed that rehearsal borrowing redistributed study from massed to spaced items on mixed lists, especially during massed presentations.
ISSN:0278-7393
1939-1285
DOI:10.1037/a0016380