Examining the relationship between free recall and immediate serial recall: The serial nature of recall and the effect of test expectancy

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-34

  Bhatarah, Parveen ^a   Ward, Geoff ^b   Tan, Lydia ^c  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPECTANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGY; VOCABULARY;

EID: 41649114369     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.1.20     Document Type: Article

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