The puzzle of study time allocation for the most challenging items

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 2003-2011

  Undorf, Monika ^a   Ackerman, Rakefet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Judgments of learning; Metamemory; Monitoring and control; Self regulation; Strategic behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONTROL; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; SELF-CONTROL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85015913209     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-017-1261-4     Document Type: Article

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