Effect of goal setting on the strategies used to solve a block design task

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 530-536

  Rozencwajg, Paulette ^a   Fenouillet, Fabien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Block design; Goal setting; Intelligence; Motivation; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861776129     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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