Distraction during learning with hypermedia: Difficult tasks help to keep task goals on track

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Scheiter, Katharina ^a   Gerjets, Peter ^a   Heise, Elke ^b  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distraction; Goal conflicts; Hypermedia; Pending goal; Seductive details; Volitional action control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897931543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00268     Document Type: Article

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