Features and Feedback: Enhancing Metamnemonic Knowledge at Retrieval Reduces Source-Monitoring Errors

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1131-1142

  Lane, Sean M ^a   Roussel, Cristine C ^a   Villa, Diane ^b   Morita, Shelby K ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c Wells Fargo   (United States)

Author keywords

eyewitness suggestibility; feedback; retrieval processes; source monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RECALL; REFERENCE VALUE; SUGGESTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SUGGESTION;

EID: 36048957829     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.6.1131     Document Type: Article

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