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Download full textGorrell, Jeffrey; Downing, Hunter – 1988
The current study was devised to determine the short-term (1 month) and long-term (4 months) effects of having students generate their own examples of selected concepts. More specifically, focus was on determining how self-generated examples might enhance the learning and retrieval of concepts. Subjects were 55 (54 female and 1 male) undergraduate…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Higher Education
