The Usefulness of Retrieval Practice and Review-Only Practice for Answering Conceptually Related Test Questions

摘要

The basic, and rather uncontroversial, assumption on which the expectation of practice effects is built is that practice activates information previously acquired, in principle, making this information more accessible to later retrieval (R. C. Anderson & Biddle, 1975; Mulligan, 2005; Roediger & Payne, 1982; Spitzer, 1939). Because items of information in a given subject area (e.g., the human brain) are likely to be part of a semantic network of interrelated concepts, they are assumed to be linked to one another.