Thesis supervisor: Mihály Racsmány
Location of studies (in Hungarian): BME KTT Abbreviation of location of studies: BME
Description of the research topic:
The classical view on human learning treated memories as formed during studying, and testing as an assessment of the efficiency of studying. However, it is a groundbreaking insight that testing can attenuate forgetting (Karpicke and Roediger, 2008). The long-term advantage of testing over study has been replicated with a wide range of materials and in situations where transfer of learning to different contexts was necessary. Despite these striking findings that underlie the crucial role of retrieval in knowledge acquisition, the mainstream educational practice is still overwhelmed with learning techniques based on some kind of studying of materials to be learned (Dunlosky et al., 2013). The general aim of this research project is to investigate the boundary conditions of long-term knowledge acquisition.
Karpicke, J. D., & Roediger, H. L. (2008). The critical importance of retrieval for learning. science, 319(5865), 966-968.Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58.Keresztes, Attila, et al. "Testing promotes long-term learning via stabilizing activation patterns in a large network of brain areas." Cerebral Cortex 24.11 (2014): 3025-3035.Racsmány, M., Szőllősi, Á., & Bencze, D. (2018). Retrieval practice makes procedure from remembering: An automatization account of the testing effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(1), 157. Roediger III, H. L., &Karpicke, J. D. (2018). Reflections on the resurgence of interest in the testing effect. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 236-241.
Required language skills: English Number of students who can be accepted: 1
Deadline for application: 2024-05-31
2024. IV. 17. ODT ülés Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).
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