The role of reminding in the effects of spaced repetitions on cued recall: Sufficient but not necessary

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 94-105

  Wahlheim, Christopher N ^a   Maddox, Geoffrey B ^a   Jacoby, Larry L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Reminding; Repetition effects; Spacing effects; Study phase retrieval

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RECALL; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84890892632     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034055     Document Type: Article

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