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Power law of practice
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <p>Portal: Psychology </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Learning_curve/EQvMC9lK">Learning curve</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Power_law/DhAjYwwz">Power law</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Forgetting/n8y7lByw">Forgetting</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120822231131/http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/cogarch0/common/theory/powerlaw.html">Power Law</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>[Snoddy, 1926] Snoddy, G. S. (1926). Learning and stability: a psychophysiological analysis of a case of motor learning with clinical applications. Journal of Applied Psychology, 10(1):1 – 36. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>[Crossman, 1959] Crossman, E. R. F. W. (1959). A theory of the acquisition of speed-skill. Ergonomics, 2(2):153–166. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>[Card et al., 1983] Card, S. K., Moran, T. P., and Newell, A. (1983). The psychology of human-computer interaction. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>[Fitts and Posner, 1967] Fitts, P. M. and Posner, M. I. (1967). Human performance. Brooks Cole, Belmont, CA. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>[Newell and Rosenbloom, 1981] Newell, A. and Rosenbloom, P. S. (1981). Mechanisms of skill acquisition and the law of practice. In Anderson, J. R., editor, Cognitive skills and their acquisition, pages 1–55. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>[Anderson, 1982] Anderson, J. R. (1982). Acquisition of cognitive skill. Psychological Review, 89(4):369–406. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Heathcote, A., Brown, S., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2000). The power law repealed: The case for an exponential law of practice. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7(2), 185-207. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Logan, G. (1992). Shapes of reaction-time distributions and shapes of learning curves: A test of the instance theory of automaticity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18(5), 883-914. <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Anderson, J., Fincham, J., & Douglass, S. (1999). Practice and retention: A unifying analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25(5), 1120-1136. <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>