Effective self-regulated studying can influence students' learning in school and beyond. This
chapter reviews research on two key decisions: when to study and how to study. It first …

Older adults often face memory deficits in binding unrelated items. However, in situations
such as preparing for foreign travel, a learner may be highly motivated to learn the …

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 …

Metacognition involves the understanding and awareness of one's cognitive processes, and
responsible remembering is the notion that people strategically focus on and remember …

People are generally able to selectively attend and remember high-value over low-value
information. Here, we investigated whether young and older adults would display typical …

Studies have shown that, to achieve a conceptual understanding of complex science topics,
learners need to use self-regulated learning (SRL) skills, particularly when learning with …

The ability to selectively focus on and remember important information, referred to as value-
directed remembering, may be crucial for effective memory functioning. In the present study …

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 …

People often rely on habitual, serial processing when presented with to-be-learned
information. We tested how strategic processing can override more bottom-up, serial …

Students consistently report multitasking (eg, checking social media, texting, watching
Netflix) when studying on their own (eg, Junco & Cotton, Computers & Education, 59 [2], 505 …