{"id":1415,"date":"2013-05-12T14:36:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2013-05-12T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T14:38:33","slug":"quote-of-the-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1415","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure about the detail of this one, but as a physicist I couldn&#8217;t resist the analogy between quantum mechanics and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=667\">testing effect<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The testing effect represents a conundrum, a small version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in psychology: Just as measuring the position of an electron changes that position, so the act of retrieving information from memory changes the mnemonic represention underlying retrieval &#8211; and enhances later retention of the tested information.&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\nRoediger, H. L., III, &amp; Karpicke, J. D. (2006). The power of testing memory: Basic research and implications for educational practice. <em>Perspectives on Psychological Science<\/em>, 1, 181-210. pg 182.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure about the detail of this one, but as a physicist I couldn&#8217;t resist the analogy between quantum mechanics and the testing effect! &#8216;The testing effect represents a conundrum, a small version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1415\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,158],"tags":[425,381],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-testing-effect","tag-quotes","tag-testing-effect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}