How the measurement of memory processes can affect memory performance: The case of remember/know judgments

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 194-203

  Naveh Benjamin, Moshe ^a   Kilb, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related changes; Associative memory; Measurement reactivity effects; Memory processes; R K judgments

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855286315     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025256     Document Type: Article

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