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Ss were allowed to pace their acquisition of nine items in a memory task, and the distribution of their rehearsal was measured. Peak rehearsal pauses changed positions across the first five trials but occurred at the same positions across the last five. Thus, Ss used the first trials to test various acquisition strategies and select among them the one that enabled them to maximize their recall.
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The research reported here was supported by USPHS Grants HD-00183 and HD-04760.
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Butterfield, E.C., Peltzman, D.J. & Belmont, J.M. The effects of practice upon rehearsal in short-term memory. Psychon Sci 23, 275–276 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336110
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