Contribution of strategy use to performance on complex and simple span tasks

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 447-461

  Bailey, Heather ^a   Dunlosky, John ^b   Kane, Michael J ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid intelligence; Secondary memory; Short term memory; Strategy use; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960047590     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0034-3     Document Type: Article

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