Evaluating characteristics of false memories: Remember/know judgments and memory characteristics questionnaire compared

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 826-837

  Mather, Mara ^a   Henkel, Linda A ^a   Johnson, Marcia K ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; STUDENT; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030713059     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211327     Document Type: Article

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