Memory and metamemory for inverted words: Illusions of competency and desirable difficulties

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 973-978

  Sungkhasettee, Victor W ^a   Friedman, Michael C ^a   Castel, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Desirable difficulties; Fluency; Judgment of learning; Memory; Metamemory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053094418     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0114-9     Document Type: Article

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