Exam 17: The Amount and Distribution of Practice

The results of the experiment by Dail and Christina in which novice golfers practiced putting,the massed practice group accurately predicted their retention test performance during the practice trials.

In the research study involving fifth-grade students who were learning a football skill,a comparison of teacher-designed and student-designed practice formats showed that the _______ format led to better learning of the skill.

Learning _______ skills seems to be hindered by practice in a distributed schedule.

If intertrial intervals are shorter than the length of a practice trial,then the practice schedule is considered to be a ________ schedule.

Research has shown that the overlearning strategy benefits the learning of all types of motor skills.

Which of the following statements are true?

Raoul practiced a skill for 30 seconds and then rested for 5-seconds between trials.Scarlett practiced the same skill for 30 seconds and rested for 40-seconds between trials.Which of the following best describes their practice situation:

When the study of practice distribution refers to the length of the intertrial interval during a practice session,there is general agreement about the definitions of the terms massed and distributed.

Massed intertrial interval schedules lead to better learning for continuous skills than distributed schedules.

Although research supports overlearning as an effective practice strategy for learning motor skills,it is important to remember that the amount of practice is:

Practice schedule A involves two 1-hour practice sessions on each of three days,while schedule B involves one 1-hour practice session on each of six days.In this scenario,schedule A would be referred to as:

A limitation of research investigating massed vs.distributed practice is:

Although the experiment involving the training of U.S.Army soldiers to assemble and disassemble a machine gun found that both the immediate overtraining and the "refresher" overtraining yielded similar beneficial retention results,they recommended the use of the ________ overtraining procedure.

The experiment by Shea and Kohl found that for learning a task that required the participants to use a specified amount of _______,overlearning resulted in poorer learning than less practice.

In the study by Schendel and Hagman (1982),the machine gun assembly-disassembly skill that was shown to benefit from overtraining is an example of a(n):

Baddely and Longman (1978)compared various massed and distributed training schedules for training postal workers and found the worst schedule for learning to be:

When increasing the amount of practice beyond a certain point does not lead to results proportionally beneficial for learning,the practice has reached a point of:

Which of the following best describes a general rule about practice distribution schedules for the length and distribution of practice sessions?

Research has shown that the general guideline for establishing the frequency of practice sessions is that [more and shorter] or [fewer and longer] sessions are preferable.

When massed practice hinders the learning of continuous skills,the most probable cause is