Influence of degree of learning on rate of forgetting of tonal sequences.

ABSTRACT: Initial performance is frequently equated in studies that compare forgetting rates across groups. However, since the encoding capacity of different groups can be different, some procedures to match initial degree of learning need to be implemented, adding confounding variables such as longer exposures to the material, which would create memories of a different age. Slamecka and McElree Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 9, 384-397, (1983) and our previous work found that the rate of forgetting was independent from initial degree of learning using verbal material. The present study seeks to determine whether this pattern holds true when undertaken with nonverbal material. In two experiments, we manipulate initial degree of learning by varying the number of

SUBMITTER: Rivera-Lares K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11868304 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature