Information acquisition strategies and the cognitive structure of arithmetic

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1249-1259

  Stevenson, Lisa M ^a,b   Carlson, Richard A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 604 Moore Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 1442326061     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195808     Document Type: Article

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