Adults' Strategies for Simple Addition and Multiplication: Verbal Self-Reports and the Operand Recognition Paradigm

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 661-672

  Metcalfe, Arron W S ^a   Campbell, Jamie I D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adults' cognitive arithmetic; Operand recognition paradigm; Strategy self reports; Switch costs

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955716005     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022218     Document Type: Article

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