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Underwood, Benton J.; And Others – 1975
If a series of verbal units is presented for study, and if a unit occurs two or more times in the series, the practice schedule for these multiple occurrences may be massed or distributed. In massed practice (MP) the item occupies adjacent positions; in distributed practice (DP) successive occurences are separated by at least one other unit. The…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Research, Memory, Recall (Psychology)
Peer reviewedDrinkwater, Betty A. – Australian Journal of Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Educational Research, Handicapped Children, Mental Retardation
Underwood, Benton J. – 1975
The purpose of these studies was to test a theory of associative context (defined as the association between two words in a pair) on recognition memory. The theory states that culturally associated words in a pair and nonassociated words in a pair differ after a single study trial in terms of their frequency representation in memory. Two…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Memory


