Recognition memory and introspective remember/know judgments: Evidence for the influence of distractor plausibility on "remembering" and a caution about purportedly nonparametric measures

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 261-269

  Benjamin, Aaron S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PREDICTION; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; COGNITION; MEMORY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST;

COGNITION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 23044480177     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195315     Document Type: Article

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