Remembering the news: Modeling retention data from a study with 14,000 participants

M Meeter*, JMJ Murre, SMJ Janssen

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    Abstract

    A retention study is presented in which participants answered questions about news events, with a retention interval that varied within participants between 1 day and 2 years. The study involved more than 14,000 participants and around 500,000 data points. The data were analyzed separately for participants who answered questions in Dutch or in English, providing an opportunity for replication. We fitted models of varying complexity to the data in order to test several hypotheses concerning retention. Evidence for an asymptote in retention was found in only one data set, and participants with greater media exposure displayed a higher degree of learning but no difference in forgetting. Thus, forgetting was independent of initial learning. Older adults were found to have forgetting curves similar to those of younger adults.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)793-810
    Number of pages18
    JournalMemory & Cognition
    Volume33
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2005

    Keywords

    • QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION
    • MEMORY
    • CURVES
    • KNOWLEDGE
    • ADULTS
    • YOUNG
    • OLDER
    • FORM
    • WEB

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