Illusions of competence and overestimation of associative memory for identical items: Evidence from judgments of learning

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-111

  Castel, Alan D ^a   McCabe, David P ^b   Roediger III, Henry L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; ILLUSION; LEARNING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

APTITUDE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 34447297574     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194036     Document Type: Article

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