Exploring the Research in Summary Worksheet
Name:
Lopez, Elisa
EDUC 1300-091
Article:
Rohrer, D., Taylor, K., Pashler, H., Cepeda, N. J., & Wixted, J. T. (2005). The effect of overlearning on long-term retention. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 361–374.
Introduction:
What question did the researcher seek to answer?
The question the researchers were seeking to answer was if the strategy of overlearning is an overall inefficient way for people to learn information and if repetition is not necessarily a way for someone to learn. The researchers questioned whether the technique of overlearning or being given repetitive material was beneficial in long term circumstances. Once the material has been learned to a criterion of one perfect trial, further studying within the same …show more content…
One experiment two hundred and eighteen students, college students were given facts about geography, but their degrees in which they learned them was manipulated. Within the first week the recall test was given and the data collected showed that over learners had much better performance in comparison to the low learners but at the time showed this would change in further time. Another experiment which will be known as experiment 1, examined the effects of overlearning paired associates on a subsequent test. College students learned 10 city-country pairs by testing the student with trials over the information they were given, with each trial including all 10 pairs. Experiment 2 differed from the first experiment which included a manipulation of total study time, the second experiment induced overlearning by varying the amount of learning material; however, the study time in experiment 2 was not included or valuable to the experiment 2. Study duration may be the most frequently manipulated variable in the field of
Name:
Lopez, Elisa
EDUC 1300-091
Article:
Rohrer, D., Taylor, K., Pashler, H., Cepeda, N. J., & Wixted, J. T. (2005). The effect of overlearning on long-term retention. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 361–374.
Introduction:
What question did the researcher seek to answer?
The question the researchers were seeking to answer was if the strategy of overlearning is an overall inefficient way for people to learn information and if repetition is not necessarily a way for someone to learn. The researchers questioned whether the technique of overlearning or being given repetitive material was beneficial in long term circumstances. Once the material has been learned to a criterion of one perfect trial, further studying within the same …show more content…
One experiment two hundred and eighteen students, college students were given facts about geography, but their degrees in which they learned them was manipulated. Within the first week the recall test was given and the data collected showed that over learners had much better performance in comparison to the low learners but at the time showed this would change in further time. Another experiment which will be known as experiment 1, examined the effects of overlearning paired associates on a subsequent test. College students learned 10 city-country pairs by testing the student with trials over the information they were given, with each trial including all 10 pairs. Experiment 2 differed from the first experiment which included a manipulation of total study time, the second experiment induced overlearning by varying the amount of learning material; however, the study time in experiment 2 was not included or valuable to the experiment 2. Study duration may be the most frequently manipulated variable in the field of