Timing and frequency of mental effort measurement: Evidence in favour of repeated measures

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 833-839

  van Gog, Tamara ^a   Kirschner, Femke ^b   Kester, Liesbeth ^c   Paas, Fred ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATING SCALE; TRAINING;

EID: 84870335573     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.2883     Document Type: Article

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