Learning and Metamemory Failures Despite Extensive Experience.

Ridgway, James E.; Saul, J. Shona M.

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ERIC Number: EJ646308

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Publication Date: 2000

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Learning and Metamemory Failures Despite Extensive Experience.

Ridgway, James E.; Saul, J. Shona M.

Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, v20 n4 p499-504 Dec 2000

States that various studies have revealed excellent recognition memory of pictures when participants are asked to remember what has been presented. Explores unpracticed memory for the English five pound bank note. States that results point to dramatic memory failure and to misrepresentations in memory. (CMK)

Descriptors: Active Learning, Departments, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Experience, Memory, Psychology, Recognition (Psychology), Visual Stimuli

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)

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