Determinants of Positive and Negative Generation Effects in Free Recall

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 705-733

  Steffens, Melanie C ^a   Erdfelder, Edgar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MOTIVATION; RECALL; REVIEW;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0032197058     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755794     Document Type: Article

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