Establishing and explaining the testing effect in free recall for young children

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 994-1000

  Lipowski, Stacy L ^a   Pyc, Mary A ^b   Dunlosky, John ^c   Rawson, Katherine A ^c  

^a HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Free recall; Item specific processing; Relational processing; Testing effects

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; VISION;

AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84897965657     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035202     Document Type: Article

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