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Abstract

As we will show, most of the major literature reviews that have been conducted on this topic of long-term retention have been relatively straightforward reports on empirical findings that emphasize a specific kind of learning (for example, motor skills), or a specific domain (for example, flight skills). For the most part, they either have not reviewed, or have reviewed only a small sample, of the “academic” literature from the basic research of the experimental psychology laboratory, or the not-so-basic research of the educational researcher whose target is typically prose (i.e., verbal, continuous, meaningful text) learning.