Does Providing Prompts During Retrieval Practice Improve Learning?

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 544-553

  Smith, Megan A ^a   Blunt, Janell R ^b   Whiffen, Joshua W ^b   Karpicke, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECALL;

EID: 84963593275     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.3227     Document Type: Article

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