Retrieval practice: the lack of transfer to deductive inferences

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 135-140

  Tran, Randy ^a   Rohrer, Doug ^b   Pashler, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deductive inference; Retrieval practice; Testing effect; Transfer of learning

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOGIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LOGIC; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929841562     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-014-0646-x     Document Type: Article

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