Illusions of competence for phonetically, orthographically, and semantically similar word pairs

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 294-302

  Tiede, Heather L ^a   Leboe, Jason P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cued recall; Judgments of learning; Metacognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; ILLUSION; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

CUES; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 74349093172     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015717     Document Type: Article

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