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Pyke, Aryn A.; LeFevre, Jo-Anne – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Why is subsequent recall sometimes better for self-generated answers than for answers obtained from an external source (e.g., calculator)? In this study, we explore the relative contribution of 2 processes, recall attempts and self-computation, to this "generation effect" (i.e., enhanced answer recall relative to when problems are practiced with a…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Calculators, Arithmetic, Recall (Psychology)