Desirable difficulties and studying in the region of proximal learning

Successful Remembering and Successful Forgetting: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert A. Bjork

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 259-276

  Metcalfe, Janet ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203842539     Document Type: Chapter

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