Feedback specificity, information processing, and transfer of training

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-267

  Goodman, Jodi S ^a   Wood, Robert E ^b   Chen, Zheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback; Information processing; Learning; Learning processes; Training; Transfer; Transfer of training

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956273727     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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