The present study investigated the effects of exposure to errors of both observers and performers (n = 80 sixth graders) on a learning task involving a bolt-head maze. All subjects who were exposed to errors retained significantly less than those not so exposed. Making errors, however, was not more detrimental to retention than was observing errors.
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