Impoverished cue support enhances subsequent retention: Support for the elaborative retrieval explanation of the testing effect

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 268-276

  Carpenter, Shana K ^a,b   DeLosh, Edward L ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33745649667     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193405     Document Type: Article

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