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Process in skill acquisition: motivation, interruptions, memory, affective states, and metacognition

Janice Langan-Fox
, Dr,
Kathy Armstrong
,
Nikola Balvin
&
Jeromy Anglim
Pages 104-117 | Published online: 22 Aug 2006

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