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Using a Model to Compute the Optimal Schedule of Practice
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Pavlik, Philip I.; Anderson, John R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2008
By balancing the spacing effect against the effects of recency and frequency, this paper explains how practice may be scheduled to maximize learning and retention. In an experiment, an optimized condition using an algorithm determined with this method was compared with other conditions. The optimized condition showed significant benefits with…
Descriptors: Intervals, Effect Size, Recall (Psychology), Experimental Psychology
Learning to Achieve Perfect Timesharing: Architectural Implications of Hazeltine, Teague, and Ivry (2002)
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Anderson, John R.; Taatgen, Niels A.; Byrne, Michael D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
E. Hazeltine, D. Teague, and R. B. Ivry have presented data that have been interpreted as evidence against a central bottleneck. This article describes simulations of their Experiments 1 and 4 in the ACT-R cognitive architecture, which does possess a central bottleneck in production execution. The simulation model is capable of accounting for the…
Descriptors: Responses, Reaction Time, Simulation, Cognitive Processes
Effects of Analogy to Prior Knowledge on Memory for New Information.
Schustack, Miriam W.; Anderson, John R. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Two experiments explored how memory for new information is affected by awareness of parallels to pre-experimental knowledge. Results suggest that the benefit of prior knowledge derives from the more elaborate encodings that analogy promotes. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experiential Learning, Experimental Psychology, Information Theory
Item-Specific and Relation-Specific Interference in Sentence Memory
Anderson, John R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1975
Several computer simulation models of memory represent human knowledge in terms of labeled networks of interconnected ideas. This article attempted to learn in such models how these networks are searched to retrieve relevant information. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Diagrams, Experimental Psychology, Memory
Recognition and Retrieval Processes in Free Recall
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Anderson, John R.; Bower, Gordon H. – Psychological Review, 1972
Article describes two processes in free recall: a retrieval process and a recognition process. Experiments confirmed the predicted dissociation of recognition and retrieval. (Author/ML)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Information Retrieval