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Spacing effect

The spacing effect demonstrates that learning is more effective when study sessions are spaced out. This effect shows that more information is encoded into long-term memory by spaced study sessions, also known as spaced repetition or spaced presentation, than by massed presentation ("cramming").

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Spacing effect

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related to References · 105
Spacing effect → Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, American Journal, American Psychologist, Appleton-Knapp, Avons, Bellezza, Benefits, Bird, Bjork, Bloom, Bussenius, Cepeda, Cermak, Challis, Chase, Clara, Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Consumer Research, Contemporary Educational Psychology
related to Semantic priming · 24
Spacing effect → Avons, Challis, Cornoldi, From, Hence, However, King, Kirsner, Lockhart, Longoni, Mammaralla, Mammarella, McKone, Parkin, Research, Russo, Semantic, Short-term, Smith, Taylor
related to Advertising · 12
Spacing effect → Appleton-Knapp, Bjork, Despite, For, However, If, It, Layout, Spaced, The, They, Wickens
related to Lag effect · 8
Spacing effect → Bjork, In, Inductive, Kornell, Michael Kahana's, The, These, While
related to Study-phase retrieval theory · 8
Spacing effect → Different, Greene, Massed, More, Spacing, This, Thus, Under
related to Application in education · 7
Spacing effect → Although, By, In, Rohrer, Studies, The, There
related to Deficient processing · 5
Spacing effect → According, Findings, Greene, Hintzman, The
has cause · 4
Spacing effect → As, Cepeda, Decades, In
related to Encoding variability · 4
Spacing effect → According, Contrastingly, The, There
related to Learning and pedagogy · 3
Spacing effect → Bahrick, Both, The

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free recallinstance ofThis robust finding has been supported by studies of many explicit memory tasks0.80text
recognitioninstance ofThis robust finding has been supported by studies of many explicit memory tasks0.80text
cued-recallinstance ofThis robust finding has been supported by studies of many explicit memory tasks0.80text
and frequency estimationinstance ofThis robust finding has been supported by studies of many explicit memory tasks0.80text
unfamiliar facesinstance ofA number of studies have demonstrated that the semantically based repetition priming approach cannot explain spacing effects in recognition memory for stimuli0.80text
and non-words that are not amenable to semantic analysisinstance ofA number of studies have demonstrated that the semantically based repetition priming approach cannot explain spacing effects in recognition memory for stimuli0.80text
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