it forces you to use 'effortful retrieval' and the efforts you make in processing and retrieving material each time makes your memory much more efficient
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evidence for the testing effect
Roediger and Karpicke (2006): one group-told to read a passage 4 times. Group 2-told to read it once, tested 3 times. Both groups-recall week later. Group 2-remembered 50% more.
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encoding
learning-converting information into a memory trace
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storage
maintaining the memory traces over time
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retrieval
locating and pulling the memory out of a store
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why does the testing effect work
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it forces you to use 'effortful retrieval' and the efforts you make in processing and retrieving material each time makes your memory much more efficient
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