Research report: In a year, memory will benefit from learning, tomorrow it won't: Distance and construal level effects on the basis of metamemory judgments

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1621-1627

  Halamish, Vered ^a   Nussinson, Ravit ^b   Ben Ari, Liat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Construal level theory; Ease of processing; Metacognition; Metamemory; Stability bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COGNITION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883827259     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032381     Document Type: Article

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