— idea of overlearning
Once material has been learned to a criterion of one perfect trial, further study within the same session constitutes overlearning.
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The overlearners recalled far more than the low learners at the 1-week test, but this difference decreased dramatically thereafter.
— ❐ The effect of overlearning on long-term retention
Jahnke and Nowaczyk (1998) advised, ‘Practise should proceed well beyond that minimally necessary for an immediate, correct first reproduction’ (p. 181)
— ❐ The effects of overlearning and distributed practise on the retention of mathematics knowledge (highlight mine)
- I'm unsure how this is supposed to interact with ~ create a variety of memory traces; ~ repetition learning works by showing stimulus in different contexts etc; if I practice recognizing a #vocabulary word in 3 different sentences, is it already overlearning after the 1st sentence exercise was done correctly?