The benefits of elaborative encoding over retrieval practice for associative learning.
The practice of retrieval has been shown to be highly beneficial for memory retention, but it has seldom been compared with learning strategies other than repeated study. Here, we compared the benefits of retrieval practice (without feedback) with the benefits of two elaborative encoding tasks for w...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 5; pp. 1592 - 1608 |
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