Distribution of Practice
Distribution of Practice
- The classic experiment: Dore and Hilgard (1937).
- Subjects' task was pursuit rotor.
- initially all groups were given 3 one minute trials with 1 minute rests for each block.
- after 3 blocks
- group 1: 11 minute rests
- group 2: 3 minute rests
- group 3: only 1 minute rests.
- The longer the rest the greater the performance.
- Suggests that distributed (rested) practice is superior to massed practice.