Different confidence-accuracy relationships for feature-based and familiarity-based memories

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 507-515

  Reinitz, Mark Tippens ^a   Peria, William J ^b   Séguin, Julie Anne ^c   Loftus, Geoffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Confidence accuracy relationship; Picture memory; Recognition memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 79952409719     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021961     Document Type: Article

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