Strong Memories Are Hard to Scale

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-257

  Mickes, Laura ^a   Hwe, Vivian ^a   Wais, Peter E ^a   Wixted, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence and accuracy; Feedback; Recognition memory; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECOGNITION; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNCERTAINTY; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79955717339     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023007     Document Type: Article

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