On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Paul Brandon wrote:
>
> Personally, I've always thought that final exams are a good test of short
> term memory ;-)
Now I have always thought the opposite, especially for a cumulative final
exam--the material was once studied well enough to be tested over and
then at some later time restudied well enough to be tested over and
_should_ be available for a longer term.
If the final is just one of several midterms where once it is studied
it is never gone back to, then I agree, it is a good test of relatively
short LTM--all of this is really quite mucky even to memory researchers,
i believe.
annette
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