Role of Study Strategy in Recall of Mixed Lists of Common and Rare Words

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 239-245

  Watkins, Michael J ^a   LeCompte, Denny C ^b,c   Kim, Kyungmi ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BMC Software   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0033628515     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.26.1.239     Document Type: Article

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