The Spacing Effect: Enhancing Memory for Repeated Marketing Stimuli

We explore the extent to which repeating a brand-attribute association will have a greater effect on recall when the 2 repetitions occur at different points in time rather than immediately after each other. Cued recall is generally better when the repeated items are separated. However, this depends on the extent to which information is organized by brand as well as by attribute, the number of attribute items presented about the brand, and the relatedness of the attributes.

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