Why do some children benefit more from testing than others? Gist trace processing to explain the testing effect

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-41

  Bouwmeester, Samantha ^a   Verkoeijen, Peter P J L ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Development; False memory; Fuzzy trace theory; Gist processing; Latent class analysis; Testing effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954686997     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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