We explore how students allocate their study time—both with regard to which materials they
select to study and how long they study them. A literature review revealed multiple outcomes …

Middle childhood may be crucial for the development of metacognitive monitoring and study
control processes. The first three experiments, using different materials, showed that Grade …

The existing literature on study time allocation has primarily focused on how people regulate
their study time allocation across different items and conditions. However, these studies …

Imagine Beth, a sixth-year graduate student, as she prepares to give an important
conference talk about her dissertation research. Her PowerPoint slides are all in order, so …

Distractions and multitasking are generally detrimental to learning and memory.
Nevertheless, people often study while listening to music, sitting in noisy coffee shops, or …

Two experiments are reported examining how value and relatedness interact to influence
metacognitive monitoring and control processes. Participants studied unrelated and related …

We are frequently exposed to situations where we need to remember important information
when our attentional resources are divided; however, it was previously unclear how divided …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition on Mar 08 2021 (see record …

Learners typically allocate more resources to learning items that are higher in value than
they do to items lower in value. For instance, when items vary in point value for learning …

When encountering an excess of information, people are able to selectively remember high-
value information by strategically allocating attention during the encoding period, termed …