Being Suspicious of the Sense of Ease and Undeterred by the Sense of Difficulty: Looking Back at Schmidt and Bjork (1992)

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 146-148

  Bjork, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

associative; education; learning; memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEMORY; SKILL; TEACHER; TEACHING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 85044757237     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691617690642     Document Type: Article

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