Spaced Repetition and Memory

Reviewing information at increasing intervals over time is called ____.

• spaced repetition
• brainstorming
• rereading
• cramming

Who began the scientific study of forgetting in the 1880s?

• Jeffrey Karpicke
• Robert Bjork
• Henry Roediger
• Hermann Ebbinghaus

What did Ebbinghaus memorize in his experiments?

• Poems
• Foreign words
• Nonsense syllables
• Number lists

The ____ curve shows memory decays quickly at first, then slows.

• spacing
• forgetting
• learning
• bell

According to the forgetting curve, memory decays slowly at first and then faster.

• True
• False

Ebbinghaus found spreading study across days beats cramming; this is the ____ effect.

• spacing
• recency
• testing
• priming

Each successful recall makes a memory more stable and flattens its forgetting curve.

• True
• False

Pulling information out of memory to strengthen learning is the ____ effect.

• placebo
• testing
• spacing
• forgetting

Which psychologist described 'desirable difficulties'?

• Hermann Ebbinghaus
• Jeffrey Karpicke
• Henry Roediger
• Robert Bjork

Rereading notes strengthens learning more than trying to recall the answer.

• True
• False

Cramming can help on tomorrow's test but the information fades quickly afterward.

• True
• False

Which programs are named as using spaced repetition?

• Excel and Word
• Zoom and Slack
• Anki and SuperMemo
• Photoshop

Modern programs use algorithms to predict when each fact will be forgotten.

• True
• False

Which researchers demonstrated the testing effect?

• Roediger & Karpicke
• Anki & SuperMemo
• Ebbinghaus & Bjork
• Pavlov & Skinner

Spaced review works best when recall is slightly difficult but still possible.

• True
• False