Effects of target set size on feelings of knowing and cued recall: Implications for the cue effectiveness and partial-retrieval hypotheses

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 553-571

  Schreiber, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LONG TERM MEMORY; RATING SCALE; RECALL; VOWEL;

EID: 0031970029     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201162     Document Type: Article

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