Feeling-of-knowing judgments from the subject's perspective

American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 373-387

  Widner Jr , Robert L ^a,b   Smith, Steven M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0030237968     PISSN: 00029556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1423012     Document Type: Article

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