How goals affect the organization and use of domain knowledge

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 837-851

  Jee, Benjamin D ^a   Wiley, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTATION; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EID: 34548607293     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193459     Document Type: Article

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