Distribution of Practice - 2

Distribution of Practice - 2

• The challenge: Adams and Reynolds (1954)
  • also used pursuit rotor
  • one group always had distributed practice
  • All other groups started out in massed practice
  • The distributed group performed better
  • Other groups switched to distributed practice
  • Distributing practice has more of an effect on performance not learning

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Distributed practice means long rests between trials.

Massed Practice means short rests between trials.