Promoting higher-order learning benefits by building lower-order mnemonic connections

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 563-575

  Carney, Russell N ^a   Levin, Joel R ^b  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICISM; FISH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCORING SYSTEM; TAPE RECORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 8744227042     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.889     Document Type: Article

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