Young Children are not Underconfident With Practice: The Benefit of Ignoring a Fallible Memory Heuristic

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 174-188

  Lipko, Amanda R ^a   Dunlosky, John ^b   Lipowski, Stacy L ^b   Merriman, William E ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMAN; ILLUSION; KINDERGARTEN; LEARNING; MATURATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METACOGNITION; PREDICTION; RECALL; SCHOOL; UNDERCONFIDENCE WITH PRACTICE;

EID: 84860333598     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: 15327647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2011.577760     Document Type: Article

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