Primacy or recency effects in forming inductive categories

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 567-577

  Duffy, Sean ^a   Crawford, L Elizabeth ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADULT; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 45849104232     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.3.567     Document Type: Article

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