How is knowledge generated about memory encoding strategy effectiveness?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 430-445

  Hertzog, Christopher ^a   Price, Jodi ^a   Dunlosky, John ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Knowledge updating; Metacognition; Monitoring; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 55749109381     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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