Tijdens mijn werkzaamheden kwam ik een aantal opmerkelijke ontwikkelingen en situaties tegen. Dit was ook voor mij een reden om deze scriptie te schrijven. Ik liep tegen zaken aan die in mijn ogen de ambitieuze plannen van Continuon in de weg stonden. Het leek me daarom interessant om van binnenuit …

Retrieval practice enhances long-term retention more than restudying; a phenomenon called the testing effect. The fuzzy trace explanation predicts that a testing effect will already emerge after a short interval when participants are solely provided with semantic cues in the final test. In the present …

Presentation of irrelevant additional information hampers learning. However, using a word-learning task, recent research demonstrated that an initial negative effect of mismatching pictures on learning no longer occurred once learners gained task experience. It is unclear, however, whether learners consciously …

In an anonymous 4-person economic game, participants contributed more money to a common project (i.e., cooperated) when required to decide quickly than when forced to delay their decision (Rand, Greene & Nowak, 2012), a pattern consistent with the social heuristics hypothesis proposed by Rand and colleagues. …