Effects of higher-order cognitive strategy training on gist-reasoning and fact-learning in adolescents

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue DEC, 2010, Pages

  Gamino, Jacquelyn F ^a   Chapman, Sandra B ^a   Hull, Elizabeth L ^a   Lyon, G Reid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Cognitive training; Education; Gist; Higher order cognition; Low socioeconomic status poverty; Middle school; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955870230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00188     Document Type: Article

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