Why do people show minimal knowledge updating with task experience: Inferential deficit or experimental artifact?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 155-173

  Hertzog, Christopher ^a   Price, Jodi ^a   Burpee, Ailis ^a   Frentzel, William J ^a   Feldstein, Simeon ^a   Dunlosky, John ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Encoding strategy; Imagery; Knowledge; Memory; Metacognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ARTIFACTS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EIDETIC IMAGERY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149357506     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210701855520     Document Type: Article

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