Separation of encoding fluency and item difficulty effects on judgements of learning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2060-2072

  Undorf, Monika ^a   Erdfelder, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ease of processing; Encoding fluency; Judgements of learning; Metacognitive heuristics; Metamemory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84889263638     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2013.777751     Document Type: Article

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