Metacognitive Control and Spaced Practice: Clarifying What People Do and Why

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1480-1491

  Toppino, Thomas C ^a   Cohen, Michael S ^b  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed practice; Metacognition; Metacognitive control; Spacing effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78249242086     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020949     Document Type: Article

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