Robert Allen Bjork, born in 1939, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on human learning and memory and on the implications of the science of learning for instruction and training. He is the creator of the directed forgetting paradigm, and he is credited with coining the term desirable difficulties in 1994 for learning tasks that require considerable but worthwhile effort and so improve long-term performance. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
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His research focuses on human learning and memory and on the implications of the science of learning for instruction and training.
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The term was first coined by Robert A. Bjork in 1994.
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