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| About the Strategy Changes in Thinking & Learning Laboratory | |
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Our lab is involved in educationally-relevant research on how people
learn new ways to solve problems and study information. Our
laboratory studies seek to discover how to improve learning and
problem-solving skills in people of all ages.
Problem Solving: Our problem solving research focuses on strategy choices and on planning. How does planning enhance learning? Can people plan in seemingly impossible tasks? Does practice bias our ways of solving other problems unconsciously? ...more » Memory: Our
memory research focuses on intentional forgetting, when repeated study
helps (and when it doesn't), and how people discover new ways of
learning. Can a person memorize fifty numbers in a minute?
Can elderly people forget things on purpose? Does rehearsing
things work the same way as restudying them?
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Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Waldum, E. R. (in press). Forgetting is easier after two "shots" than one. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L, & Delaney, P. F. (2008). Rote rehearsal and spacing effects in the free recall of pure and mixed lists. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 35-47. Delaney, P. F., & Sahakyan, L. (2007). Unexpected costs of high working memory capacity following directed forgetting and context change manipulations. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1074-1082. Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2005). Encoding strategy changes and spacing in free recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 120-130. Knowles, M. E., & Delaney, P. F. (2005). Lasting reductions in illegal moves following increasing their cost: Evidence from river-crossing problems. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31, 670-682. Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2005). Directed forgetting in incidental learning and recognition testing: Support for a two-factor account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31, 789-801. |
