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Jores, Theo; Colloff, Melissa F.; Kloft, Lilian; Smailes, Harriet; Flowe, Heather D. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
There is widespread belief in the legal system that alcohol impairs witness testimony. Nevertheless, most laboratory studies examining the effects of alcohol on witness testimony suggest that alcohol may affect the number of correct but not incorrect details recalled. However, it is difficult to draw conclusions because sample sizes, testing…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Alcohol Abuse, Recall (Psychology), Memory
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Pavlik, Philip I.; Anderson, John R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2008
By balancing the spacing effect against the effects of recency and frequency, this paper explains how practice may be scheduled to maximize learning and retention. In an experiment, an optimized condition using an algorithm determined with this method was compared with other conditions. The optimized condition showed significant benefits with…
Descriptors: Intervals, Effect Size, Recall (Psychology), Experimental Psychology
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Martinussen, Rhonda; Hayden, Jill; Hogg-Johnson, Sheilah; Tannock, Rosemary – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
Objective: To determine the empirical evidence for deficits in working memory (WM) processes in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Method: Exploratory meta-analytic procedures were used to investigate whether children with ADHD exhibit WM impairments. Twenty-six empirical research studies published from…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Models, Memory, Intervals