Exploring the boundaries of memory distrust from repeated checking: Increasing external validity and examining thresholds

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 995-1006

  Coles, Meredith E ^a   Radomsky, Adam S ^b   Horng, Betty ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Checking; Memory; Obsessive compulsive disorder; OCD; Remember know

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPULSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; RELIABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 33744905365     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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