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Typewriting skill showed an average daily gain of eighty-five strokes on memory tests taken after a year and a half without practice, attributed to the disappearance of interfering associations rather than neural growth

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1908 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? After a rest interval of a year and a half with no typewriter seen, memory tests showed an average daily gain of eighty-five strokes over the last regular-practice tests. → Book 1908 q2 i? The gain was determined to be due to the disappearance with time of interfering associations, leaving the established typewriting associations free to act, not to neural growth. → Book 1908

Evidence

Book 1908

Book, William Frederick. (1908). The Role of the Teacher in the Most Expeditious and Economic Learning. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+Role+of+the+Teacher+in+the+Most+Expeditious+and+Economic+Learning

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Laboratory memory tests of one regular typewriting subject, ten tests four and a half months and ten more a year and a half after regular practice ceased, under uniform conditions. The tests "showed an average daily gain (deducting all errors) of eighty-five strokes."

"But the second memory tests, taken after a rest interval of a year and a half, during which time a typewriter was not even seen, showed an average daily gain (deducting all errors) of eighty-five strokes."

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type claim
id typewriting-gain-after-long-rest-from-fading-interferences
title Typewriting skill showed an average daily gain of eighty-five strokes on memory tests taken after a year and a half without practice, attributed to the disappearance of interfering associations rather than neural growth
description Typewriting skill showed an average daily gain of eighty-five strokes on memory tests taken after a year and a half without practice, attributed to the disappearance of interfering associations rather than neural growth
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 1908
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