BBC - Future - Psychology: A simple trick to improve your memory - 0 views
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One of the interesting things about the mind is that even though we all have one, we don't have perfect insight into how to get the best from it.
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Karpicke and Roediger asked students to prepare for a test in various ways, and compared their success
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On the final exam differences between the groups were dramatic. While dropping items from study didn’t have much of an effect, the people who dropped items from testing performed relatively poorly: they could only remember about 35% of the word pairs, compared to 80% for people who kept testing items after they had learnt them.
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