Learning from the consequences of retrieval: Another test effect

Successful Remembering and Successful Forgetting: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert A. Bjork

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 347-364

  Bjork, Elizabeth Ligon ^a   Storm, Benjamin C ^a   De Winstanley, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203842539     Document Type: Chapter

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