How many response options? A study of remember-know testing procedures

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-129

  Bruno, Davide ^a   Rutherford, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Memory; Recognition memory; Remember know procedure; Response bias; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77951024496     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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