If the spacing effect is so great, why is nobody using it?
Learning Pool
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
It’s the spacing effect. . Cognitive psychology, when it got going in the 1960s, further backed up the theory, giving a mechanism to explain how and why the effect works – with the spacing of learning helping to move our recollections from short-term (or working) memory into the long-term store. So why this rare outbreak of consensus?
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