Practice and Retention: A Unifying Analysis

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1120-1136

  Anderson, John R ^a   Fincham, Jon M ^a   Douglass, Scott ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; TIME;

HUMANS; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0033192490     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.25.5.1120     Document Type: Article

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