What is Distributed Practice?
A learning technique which involves the repetition of specific items at intervals over a designated period.
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What is Massed Practice?
A learning technique which involves the repetition of specific facts or skills over a concentrated period.
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What is a Recency Effect?
The tendency for the easier recollection of items at the end of a list than of other items.
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What is a Primacy Effect?
The tendency for the easier recollection of items at the beginning of a list than of subsequent items.
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What is Retroactive Facilitation?
An increased ability to understand previously learned information due to the acquisition of new information.
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What is a Proactive Facilitation?
An increased ability to acquire new information due in part to the presence of previously learned knowledge.
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What is a Proactive Inhibition?
A weakened ability to learn new information due to interference from previously learned knowledge.
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What is a Retroactive Inhibition?
A weakened ability to remember information due to the act of learning new information.
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What is an Interference?
An inhibition in the recollection of certain information due to the presence of other data in one’s memory.
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What is the Dual Code Theory of Memory?
A research-based conjecture that information coded both visually and verbally is better retained in memory than information coded in only one of the two ways.
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