Effects of varied and constant environmental contexts on acquisition and retention

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1582-1593

  Smith, Steven M ^a   Handy, Justin D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Decontextualization; Encoding variability

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; FACE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; VIDEORECORDING;

CUES; FACE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NAMES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84924908722     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000019     Document Type: Article

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