The role of unconscious memory errors in judgments of confidence for sentence recognition

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 158-163

  Sampaio, Cristina ^a   Brewer, William F ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEMORY; PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; UNCONSCIOUS MEMORY; AWARENESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AWARENESS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 65549135802     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.2.158     Document Type: Article

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