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Retention of Spanish vocabulary over 8 years.
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Thirty-five individuals who had learned and relearaed 50 English-Spanish word pairs were tested for recall and recognition after an interval of 8 years. Two variables, the spacing between successive releaming sessions and the number of presentations required to encode individual word pairs, are excellent predictors of the likelihood of achieving permastore retention. Optimum recall occurs for words encoded in 1 -2 presentations and accessed at intervals of 30 days. Both variables yield monotonic retention functions that account for a range of variation from 0% to 23% recall. These variables also have very significant effects on the recognition of unrecalled words. A recent investigation of the retention of Spanish language learned in school (Bahrick, 1984) shows that a portion of the acquired knowledge has a life span of more than 25 years even if the knowledge is not rehearsed or accessed during that long interval. Another part of the originally acquired knowledge is lost within 5 years after training terminates, and virtually no knowledge is lost during the interval between 5 and 25 years following acquisition. This finding suggests the challenging possibilities of identifying conditions of learning and/or characteristics of material associated with a prospective life span of more than 25 years and of differentiating these conditions and characteristics from those associated with material destined to have a relatively short life span (less than 5 years). Such information wo…
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“Every study examined here with a retention interval longer than one month (Bahrick, 1979; Bahrick, et al., 1993; Bahrick & Phelps, 1987; Cepeda et al., 2005) demonstrated a benefit from distribution of learning across weeks or months, as opposed to learning across a one-day interval;”
From Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. (2006) · cites this paper as Bahrick & Phelps, 1987
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“In many studies, including some deservedly well-cited research in this area (e.g., Bahrick, 1979; Bahrick & Phelps, 1987), participants were trained to a criterion of perfect performance on all items during the second and subsequent learning sessions.”
From Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. (2006) · cites this paper as Bahrick & Phelps, 1987
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“These studies confounded number of relearning trials with ISI; that is, there was more relearning at longer ISIs.”
From Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. (2006) · cites this paper as Bahrick & Phelps, 1987
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“Another issue in interpreting the Bahrick studies (Bahrick et al., 1993;Bahrick & Phelps, 1987) is the use of a fixed performance criterion.Given the forgetting that takes place during the gap between study sessions, this inevitably means that many more relearning trials will be necessary during most sessions at the longest gap (as compared to the shortest).”
From Spacing Effects in Learning: A Temporal Ridgeline of Optimal Retention (2008) · cites this paper as Bahrick & Phelps, 1987
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bahrick, H. P., & Phelphs, E.
- Affiliations
- Ohio Wesleyan University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Published
- 1987-04
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 344-349
- ISSN
- 0278-7393 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1285
- OpenAlex
- W2032754114
- Cited by
- 228
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- long-term retention, Spanish vocabulary, word recall, word recognition, relearning, spacing effect, rehearsal, forgetting, second language vocabulary
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