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The team found that students remembered the pairs much better when they first tried to retrieve the answer before it was shown to them. In a way this pretesting effect is counterintuitive: Studying a pair for 13 seconds produces worse recall than studying the pair for 5 seconds, if students in the latter condition spent the previous 8 seconds trying to retrieve or guess the answer. But the effect averaged about 10 percent better recall, and occurred both immediately after study and after a delay averaging 38 hours.
Welcher Lerntyp bin ich? Aus Erfahrung wissen wir, daß es verschiedene Arten des Lernens gibt. Manche können sich einen Lernstoff gut merken, wenn sie ihn lesen, andere, wenn sie einem Vortragenden zuhören und wieder andere lernen am besten, wenn sie
From the page: "Children whose father's vocabulary was more varied when they were 2 years old had more advanced language skills at age 3. Surprisingly, the dads spoke less and asked fewer questions than the mothers, suggesting it was not how much they spo
J. DeLoache. Child Psychology in Retrospect and Prospect: In Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Child Development, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, (2002)