Toward an understanding of students' allocation of study time: Why do they decide to mass or space their practice?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 431-440

  Pyc, Mary A ^a   Dunlosky, John ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; STUDENT;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS;

EID: 77956458084     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.4.431     Document Type: Article

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