Delayed judgments of learning cause both a decrease in absolute accuracy (calibration) and an increase in relative accuracy (resolution)

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1527-1538

  Van Overschelde, James P ^a,b   Nelson, Thomas O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RECALL;

EID: 33846204790     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195916     Document Type: Article

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