A procedural explanation of the generation effect for simple and difficult multiplication problems and answers

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 652-679

  McNamara, Danielle S ^a   Healy, Alice F ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Generation effect; procedural reinstatement; multiplication problem difficulty; arithmetic; cognitive procedures; memory; retrieval; effort

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039848310     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.2000.2720     Document Type: Article

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