The influence of instructions and terminology on the accuracy of remember-know judgments

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 401-413

  McCabe, David P ^a   Geraci, Lisa D ^b  

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

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscious retrieval; Episodic memory; Familiarity; Instructions; Metacognition; Recollection; Remember know; Subjective memory judgments

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; RECOGNITION;

AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUGGESTION; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349161878     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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