Department of Experimental Psychology, Regensburg University, Germany.
Department of Experimental Psychology, Regensburg University, Germany.
Cognition. 2020 Aug;201:104316. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104316. Epub 2020 May 19.
Retrieval practice can boost memory and long-term retention. The present research suggests that it may also benefit another domain that is critical for learning, namely motivation. In three experiments, subjects studied Swedish vocabulary by means of retrieval practice - with or without corrective feedback - or restudy. After a final memory test, subjects were left alone for a short period of time, and could choose freely if they wanted to learn more about the Swedish language and Sweden as a country. Retrieval practice with - but not without - feedback increased the time that subjects chose to invest in continued engagement in the materials. The results provide first evidence that retrieval practice plus feedback can increase motivation to keep on studying, potentially by making one's own progress in learning more transparent and enhancing experience of competence. Caveats and potential limitations are discussed.
检索练习可以增强记忆力和长期保持力。本研究表明，它还可能有益于另一个对学习至关重要的领域，即动机。在三个实验中，受试者通过检索练习（有或没有纠错反馈）或重新学习来学习瑞典词汇。在最后的记忆测试之后，受试者被单独留下一小段时间，如果他们想要了解更多关于瑞典语和瑞典的信息，他们可以自由选择。有反馈的检索练习会增加受试者选择继续投入学习材料的时间。研究结果首次提供了证据，表明检索练习加反馈可以提高继续学习的动机，这可能是通过使自己的学习进度更加透明，并增强能力体验。文中还讨论了注意事项和潜在的局限性。
