The Testing Effect and Cramming: Investigating the Presence of the Testing Effect in a Shorter Retention Interval
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Date
2014-06
Authors
Arenas, Christian Joseph M.
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University of Oregon
Abstract
The presence of the testing effect in a retention interval of 8 hours is investigated in this
study. Undergraduate students were told to remember a word list and were either given a test to
study or re-read the word list before taking a recall test for these words 8 hours later. There was
no difference in word recall accuracy for those who were given a test to study and who re-read
the word list to study. The results showed that the testing effect was not present for a retention
interval of 8 hours. This null effect is atypical to the robustness of the testing effect found in
other studies that have a retention interval of at least 1 day.
Description
21 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Psychology
and the Robert D. Clark Honors College
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Bachelor of Science
June 2014
Keywords
Psychology, Short retention, Cramming, Learning memory, Memory recall, Testing effect