Metacognition and learning about primacy and recency effects in free recall: The utilization of intrinsic and extrinsic cues when making judgments of learning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 429-437

  Castel, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUDGMENT OF LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METACOGNITION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIMACY EFFECT; RECALL; RECENCY EFFECT; SERIAL POSITION INFORMATION; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 44649180089     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.2.429     Document Type: Article

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