Kornell (2009) asked participants to study difficult GRE-type words and their more common synonyms (e.g., effulgent: brilliant).Kornell found that students who were made to distribute their study forgot many more vocabulary terms than those who were made to mass their study.

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Kornell (2009) found that distributed practice (spacing out study sessions) led to better long-term retention of vocabulary terms compared to massed practice (cramming study sessions together), contrary to the claim that distributed study resulted in more forgetting.

Kornell (2009) Asked Participants to Study Difficult GRE-Type Words and Their