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Spacing enhances the learning of natural concepts: an investigation of mechanisms, metacognition, and aging
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In two experiments, we examined spacing effects on the learning of bird families and metacognitive assessments of such learning. Results revealed that spacing enhanced learning beyond massed study. These effects were increased by presenting birds in pairs so as to highlight differences among families during study (Experiment 1). Self-allocated study time provided evidence that more attention was paid during spaced than during massed study and resulted in no age differences in learning (Experiment 2). Metacognitive measures revealed sensitivity to the processing advantage of spaced study and to differences in classification difficulty across categories. No difference occurred in monitoring accuracy for young versus older adults. These findings provide evidence for discrimination- and attention-based accounts of the spacing effect in natural concept learning.
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“Importantly, however, even when interleaving is beneficial, it may seem counterproductive: The great majority of the participants in the present study, as well as those in prior studies (Kornell & Bjork, 2008;Kornell et al., 2010;Wahlheim et al., 2011;Zulkiply et al., 2012), judged that they had learned more effectively with blocked than with interleaved study.”
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“The results were consistent with prior studies (Kang & Pashler, 2012;Wahlheim et al., 2011) in supporting the discriminative-contrast hypothesis: Interrupting discrimination processing, which was accomplished in the present experiment by inserting trivia questions between interleaved exemplars, impaired inductive learning, whereas interleaved order, the bottom row depicts four Fieldfare exemplars.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wahlheim, C. N., Dunlosky, J., & Jacoby, L. L.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Kent State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wahlheim, Christopher N.
- Venue
- Memory & Cognition
- Published
- 2011-01-07
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 750-763
- ISSN
- 0090-502X (ISSN-L)
- 1532-5946
- PMC
- PMC3085105
- OpenAlex
- W2159313072
- Cited by
- 172
- References
- 23
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- FWCI
- 6.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Memory & Cognition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- James S. McDonnell Foundation
- National Institute on Aging (T32AG000030)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Keywords
- spacing effect, bird families, metacognition, aging, attention, discrimination learning, monitoring accuracy
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aging, Animals, Association Learning, Attention, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Female, Humans, Judgment, Male, Middle Aged, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Practice, Psychological, Mental Recall, Passeriformes
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