Active control of study leads to improved recognition memory in children

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 2675-2680

  Ruggeri, Azzurra ^a,b   Markant, Douglas B ^a   Gureckis, Todd M ^c   Xu, Fei ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active learning; cognitive development; exploration; inquiry learning; metacognition; recognition memory

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONDITIONS; ACTIVE CONTROL; ACTIVE LEARNING; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONDITION; EXPERIMENT TESTING; INQUIRY LEARNING; METACOGNITION; RECOGNITION MEMORY; SIMPLE++;

EID: 84982225178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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